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...demonstration was electrified by the arrival of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Mule Train, followed by about 600 Mayday supporters from the park...
...SCLC National Program Director Hosea Williams led the group in singing and chanting as they marched down Pennsylvania Avenue and circled the Justice Department twice...
Hosea Williams, national program director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), was among those arrested yesterday. Williams arrived at the Justice Department at about noon with over 600 demonstrators from the Algonquin Peace City situated two miles away at West Potomac Park...
...Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy, chairmanof the SCLC, also addressed the crowd but was not arrested. Hundreds of employees from the Justice Department and the adjacent Internal Revenue Service building watched quietly from across 10th Street as police cleared the demonstrators...
...King and the SCLC [Southern Christian Leadership Conference] pushed the NAACP into legitimacy and Marshall into a Supreme Court seat. Rap Brown and the brick-throwers pushed the SCLC into respectability and gave King the Nobel Peace Prize. And the Panthers have made everybody respectable." he said...