Southern Christian Leadership Conference founded
1957 · Event
Black ministers meeting in Atlanta form the SCLC with King as president, to spread the non-violent tactics of the Montgomery boycott across the South.
On these timelines: The Civil Rights Movement, USA, Master
More from The Civil Rights Movement
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat (1955)
- Montgomery bus boycott (1955)
- Selma to Montgomery marches (1965)
- The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing (1963)
- Birmingham campaign (1963)
- King writes the Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)
- Freedom Summer (1964)
Around 1957
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Korean War (1950)
- Apartheid (1948)