I read in Clancy DuBos' column ("Now What?," Feb. 2) that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. founded the Southern Christian Leadership Con-ference in Central City. Where exactly did this happen? Zane ...

Very cold weather is in the forecast for Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday — but events honoring the slain civil rights activist will go forward. The Southern Christian Leadership Conferen… ...

King, second from right, Fred L. Shuttlesworth, and Southern Christian Leadership Conference staff members at a 1966 staff workshop in Frogmore, South Carolina.— Bob Fitch Photo Archive ...

ATLANTA -- The Rev. Bernice King was named today as the first woman to head the civil rights organization co-founded by her father, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Southern Christian Leadership ...

Joseph E. Lowery, civil rights leader who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr., has died. He was 98.

On the C-SPAN Networks: Southern Christian Leadership Conference has hosted 39 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1988 News Conference. The year with the most events was ...

In this Aug. 28, 1963, file photo, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, speaks to thousands during his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the ...

Martin Luther King Jr., the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was the Nation’s civil rights correspondent, writing annual. From 1961 to 1966, ...

(RNS) The Rev. Howard Creecy Jr., a Baptist preacher chosen early this year as the new president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, died suddenly Thursday (July 28) at the age of 57. His ...

The annual day of remembrance for Martin Luther King Jr. is less than two weeks away, ... founding the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957 and leading the 1963 March on Washington.