International Poor People’s Campaign
Dr. Charles Steele, Jr. traveled to Germany to launch the International Poor People’s Campaign to combat poverty around the world. Poverty is not just a local injustice it a global one so the SCLC seeks to eradicate extreme poverty through an cohesive international effort.
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February 27, 2020
Democratic Presidential candidates propose new voting rights act, legalizing marijuana, national referendums on major issues, Executive Orders and other measured to improve quality of life for African-Americans… (read more)
Justice For Girls
Prevent Sex Trafficking: Justice for Girls seeks to heighten awareness of human trafficking within communities, using education to empower individuals and groups to actively work to eradicate this injustice.
Kingian NonViolence Training
Central to the mission of SCLC is to awaken and strengthen the moral conscience of this country to the growing catastrophe of childhood incarceration and the obvious social unrest in under-funded and developing socioeconomic areas in rural or urban centers.
Who are we?
SCLC’s focus is to educate youth and adults in the areas of personal responsibility, leadership potential, and community service; to ensure economic justice and civil rights and to eradicate racism wherever it exists.
Latest News
Politicians, activists pay tribute to civil rights icon Joseph E. Lowery
Politicians from across the United States are paying respects after the passing of an Atlanta civil rights icon.
The family of Dr. Josephy E. Lowery, called
SCLC WANTS FUNDING FOR CONVID-19 FLOWING TO THE POOR (Release 3.20.2020)
Even Doing the Covid-19 Pandemic, The SCLC is Fighting for the Poor
All Americans, Not Just Corporations, Must Benefit from the Funds to End the Crisis
Dr. Steele and the SCLC Family Participate in Bloody Sunday Commemoration
A who’s who of political figures, including five Democratic presidential candidates, [and Dr. Steele with the SCLC family] were marking the occasion, nearly 55 years
SCLC Congratulates Kamaria Warren
Clayton County Public Schools (CCPS ) is proud to congratulate Kamaria Warren, a 6th-grade student at Rex Mill Middle School, as she has been selected
SCLC and Federal Home Loan Bank Announce Community Disaster Recovery Forum in Panama City, FL
National SCLC President/CEO, Dr. Charles Steele Jr. has announced a Community Disaster Recover Forum in partnership with the Federal Home Loan Bank. This event will
Dr. Steele’s Participation Highlighted in USA Today
Emotional reading of Martin Luther King Jr. letter brings rare bipartisan bonding in Senate (please click link for full article)
SCLC Joins Coalition Urging Innovative Sickle Cell Treatment
April 9, 2019
The Honorable Alex M. Azar II
Secretary of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20201
Dear Mr. Azar:
As organizations representing minority communities in
Southern Christian Leadership Conference Slams ‘Leaving Neverland’ as ‘Posthumous Lynching’ of Michael Jackson
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference has written a letter to HBO asking the network to reconsider airing “Leaving Neverland,” the two-part film about Michael Jackson’s
SCLC PRESIDENT STEELE DELIVERS “NEVER GIVE UP” TALK TO DETROIT CITY COUNCIL
President Dr. Charles Steele Jr. went to speak to the Detroit City Council on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. He was met by the Detroit SCLC
Charleston’s Days of Grace
Sept 5, 9am: Mass March
Sept 5 & 6:Strategy
Conference
“It would be a betrayal of everything Reverend Pinckney stood for, I believe, if we allowed ourselves to
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People need jobs and income. Poverty, as Dr. King reminded us, is one of the worst forms of violence.
Dr. King task me with institutionalizing and internationalizing non-violence. That is what I will continue to fight for.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.