... a name suggested by Rev. Abernathy. Dr. King was elected president and Rev. Abernathy was elected director of the program. The organization became the direct forerunner of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. United by the M.I.A., Negroes boycotted the Montgomery bus boycott system for 381 days by walking, by using the M.I.A. car pool, and by sharing personal means of ... agreed that a strong regional organization would be necessary to combat the racial segregation. The first meeting of this new regional organization, which later came to be known as Southern Christian Leadershi...

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... up in the city's Sweet Auburn neighborhood, then home. to some of the most prominent and prosperous African Americans in the country (History.com). A gifted student, King attended segregated public schools and at the age of 15 was admitted to Morehouse College, the alma mater of both his father and maternal grandfather, where he studied medicine and law. Although he had ... , who firebombed his family home that January. Emboldened by the boycott's success, in 1957 he and other civil rights activists – most of them fellow ministers – founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conferenc...

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... to reality when he talks about how he has been labeled as an "outsider coming in "(King-390) by the Clergymen. King argues that he is part of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference serving as their President. King states that they were asked by affiliates in Birmingham "to be on call to engage in nonviolent direct-action program if such were ... citizens. Blacks were considered by whites to be less of a person than a white was. The black race was fighting for their equality. African Americans were fighting to stop segregation in schools, and they were trying to gain voting rights....

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