Word: sclc
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...major purposes of the spring conference was to plan the Mississippi Summer Project. This massive attack on segregation in Mississippi is being organized by the Council of Federated Organizations, a statewide organization composed of SNCC, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Southern christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP...
...SCLC, active in St. Augustine since last fall, had mounted a special campaign during the last two weeks and needed more volunteers to replace those workers who had already been jailed...
...SCLC is currently raising $20,000 to be used for bail and incidental expenses incurred in its work in St Augustine, Fla., and Williamston, N.C. Contributions are being collected for SCLC at Memorial Church and at Christ Church in Cambridge. Checks should be made out to SCLC, and may be mailed to 41 Winthrop St. Roxbury...
...SCLC has also organized a less publicized community-wide attempt in Williamston, North Carolina. Three students at the Divinity School went down as representatives of the Harvard Divinity School Civil Rights Committee...
John B. Lawton Jr., Richard A. Horsley, and William R. Law joined 50 other members of the Massachusetts unit of the SCLC in sit-ins in three restaurants along an inter-state highway. They were arrested and spent three days in jail until they were bailed out on Friday