Word: sclc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feel that we don't owe it," Rev. Ralph Abernathy, SCLC president, said yesterday. "We were not given ample time to tear down Resurrection City and restore the area to its former status. We had only a few hours notice...
...Interior Department, which cleaned up the site, has threatened to take the SCLC to court if the bill isn't paid. Abernathy, in turn, said he has instructed SCLC attorneys to prepare a suit against the government for $100,000 damage allegedly done to property of poor people when Resurrection City was closed...
...beginning, after the death of the Rev. Martin Luther King, SCLC leaders held long discussions on whether they would go to Washington to build a movement of poor people, to win specific demands from Congress, or to do both...
...Abernathy gave in. His purposely vague demands suddenly firmed up. His 49 demands turned out to be mainly uncreative housing and welfare proposals already offered by the Johnson Administration. And the target of the SCLC demands was a reactionary Congress that was about to adjourn...
Since the death of the City, SCLC has been focusing on organizing the poor. The center of operations has shifted from West Potomac Park to 14th and U streets, the core of the ghetto, where the April riot began. The poor people's campaign is not over...