Southern Christian Leadership Conference staff lists, 1968 March 17 and 1968 May 16 : typescript.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Southern Christian Leadership Conference, issuing body.

Contributor:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

African American civil rights workers.

Civil rights movements--United States.

Civil rights movements.

Genre:

Manuscripts, English -- 20th century.

Manuscripts, American -- 20th century.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Crow Hop Rare Books (Woodstock, Georgia), 2025.

Physical Description:

2 items (6 leaves) : paper ; 28 x 22 cm

Production:

Atlanta, Georgia?, 1968 March 17 and 1968 May 16.

Contained In:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 26 Folder 11

Biography/History:

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is a civil rights organization, founded in 1957 following the Montgomery Bus Boycott victory in Alabama. The first president of SCLC was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968).

Summary:

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) staff members and locations 3 page typed document, dated March 17, 1968; with 3 page typed list of SCLC subsistence staff, steering committee and executive staff committee, dated May 16, 1968. Annotations made in pen, in different inks. A number of names have been crossed out, including Martin Luther King, Jr. who was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Other notable names on the SCLC staff lists include Ralph David Abernathy (1926-1990), James Bevel (1936-2008), Septima P. Clark (1898-1987), Golden Frinks (1920-2004), Jesse L. Jackson (1941-), Annell Ponder (1932-2013), Hosea L. Williams (1926-2000), and Rev. Andrew J. Young (1932-).

Cited as:

Southern Christian Leadership Conference Staff Lists, 1968 March 17 and 1968 May 16 (Misc Mss Box 26 Folder 11). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1523540515