... Baptist Church. This new position did not stop King and his SCLC colleagues from becoming key players in many of the most significant civil rights battles of the 1960s. Their philosophy of nonviolence was put to a particularly severe test during the Birmingham campaign of 1963, in which activists used a boycott, sit-ins and marches to protest segregation, unfair hiring practices and other ... such issues as poverty and unemployment (Pepper, Williams 1968). In the spring of 1968, while preparing for a planned march to Washington to lobby Congress on behalf of the poor, King and other ...

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