Word: sclc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JESSE JACKSON, the charismatic "country preacher" who built SCLC's Operation Breadbasket and was until recently its Director, understands the importance of Brooke's position on Appropriations...
...Glenn, a former U.S. attorney in South Carolina, told the conference that the FBI had not conducted any meaningful investigation of the shootings of four black students at Orangeburg, S.C. because the agents were close friends with the Highway Patrolmen who had done the shooting. Andrew Young, a veteran SCLC organizer, told the conference that civil rights groups had met with an outstanding lack of success in seeking FBI investigation of harassment beatings and shootings of civil rights workers in the deep South because the Bureau was unwilling to invade the domain of local sheriffs. Vern Countryman, professor...
Beginning at 1:15 p.m., about 4000 demonstrators marched in groups of 30 to 50 to the Justice Department from Franklin Square where leaders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) stressed that they should remain nonviolent...
...SCLC-which organized the noon meeting in Franklin Square and the Justice Department action in conjunction with the Mayday collective-had no permit for an assembly or a parade...
...leaders of the march expect to be arrested before reaching the Pentagon, possibly at the Monument itself. However, they hope that the presence of SCLC leaders Ralph D. Abernathy and Hosea Williams, and noted pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock will attract attention to antiwar demands. They also expect to tie up large numbers of police and block traffic as they are being arrested...