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While he was still in college, Jackson became involved in King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), an organization instrumental in organizing the 1963 Civil Rights march on Washington...
Black Harvard students must celebrate the Black experience and "return to an era of activism," the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) said yesterday...
...Black students have an extraordinary responsibility to help teach white students who don't know what the Black experience means," said Lowry, who, more than 30 years ago, helped the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. found SCLC-a major civil rights organization. "The future is in your hands: continue the fight...
...would Abernathy add an unsavory note to the memory of King's murder? He complains that King's other aides saw him as "no more than an appendage to Martin," so he may have wished to underscore his leading role in SCLC. His declared purpose, however, was "to render justice to the dead without causing too much unnecessary pain to the living...
Many of King's other friends and associates banded together last week to ! demand that Abernathy "repudiate" his account of King's last hours. Among those signing a wire of protest were Jesse Jackson, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, and SCLC's current president, Joseph Lowery. They speculated that "to sell books" someone other than Abernathy wrote the offending passages. But Harper & Row spokesman Steve Sorrentino insists that "the book is entirely Abernathy's words." In Memphis on a promotion tour, Abernathy, who has had two strokes and suffers from glaucoma, declared, "I am not a Judas. I have written nothing...