Examples of Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the following topics:
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- There are different kinds of Protestant denominations such as Methodists and Baptists, which are both Christian.
- The Christianity of the black population was grounded in evangelicalism.
- Today, the NCC is a joint venture of 35 Christian denominations in the United States.
- As the center of community life, Black churches played a leadership role in the Civil Rights Movement.
- He helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1957), serving as its first president.
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- The bill came before the full Senate for debate on March 30, 1964, and the "Southern Bloc" of 18 southern Democratic Senators and one Republican Senator led by Richard Russell launched a filibuster to prevent its passage.
- Russell stated: "We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our (Southern) states."
- While Congress played an important role by passing the Acts, the actions of civil rights groups such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) were instrumental in forging new paths, pioneering new techniques and strategies, and achieving breakthrough successes.
- Attempts to register southern African American voters continued to encounter white resistance, and protests against this interference often met with violence.
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- The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an African-American civil rights organization that was central to the Civil Rights Movement.
- Traditionally, leadership in black communities came from the educated elite—ministers, professionals, teachers, etc.
- Similarly to the arguments used by earlier proponents of slavery, many segregationist used Christianity to justify racism and racial violence.
- Shortly after Martin Luther King's death, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference used this poster—issued in an edition of one hundred—for a fundraising drive.
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- He is best known for his practice of nonviolent civil disobedience
based on his Christian beliefs.
- King's first involvement in the Civil Rights Movement that attracted national attention was his leadership over the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- In 1957, King, Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth, Joseph Lowery,
and other civil rights activists founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
- As a Christian minister, King's main influence was the Christian gospels, which he would almost always quote in his religious meetings, speeches at church, and in public discourses.
- Rustin and Smiley came from the Christian pacifist tradition, and Wofford and Rustin both studied Gandhi's teachings.
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- Grassroots civil rights activist Ella Baker pushed for a “participatory Democracy” that built on the grassroots campaigns of active citizens instead of deferring to the leadership of educated elites and experts.
- In 1963, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) led by King mounted protests in some 186 cities throughout the South.
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- By 1980, evangelical Christians had become an important political and social force in the United States.
- In the 1960 presidential election, the alienation of Southern Democrats from the Democratic Party, as well as the fear of social disintegration provoked by the counterculture and social movements of the 60s, contributed to the rise of the Right.
- Under this leadership, the new Religious Right combines conservative politics with evangelical and fundamentalist teachings.
- Thus, the Christian Coalition was actually planned long before Pat Robertson's run for president.
- Examine the emergence of the Christian Right in the United States
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- Though often overlooked, many women played integral leadership roles in the advancements of the civil rights movement in the United States.
- She was a critic of professionalized, charismatic leadership and a promoter of grassroots organizing and radical democracy.
- In 1952, Daisy Bates was elected president of the Arkansas Conference of NAACP branches.
- She became President of the Arkansas Conference of NAACP Branches in 1952 at the age of 38.
- Height was also a founding member of the Council for United Civil Rights Leadership.
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- Christian Fundamentalism, also known as Fundamentalist Christianity, or Fundamentalism, arose out of
British and American Protestantism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
among Evangelical Christians.
- The founders of
Fundamentalist Christianity reacted against liberal theology and militantly
asserted that the inerrancy, meaning without error or fault, of the Bible was essential
for true Christianity and was being violated by modernists.
- Although Fundamentalism began in America's northern
regions, its greatest popular strength was in the South, especially among
Southern Baptists.
- Riley
created, at a large conference in Philadelphia in 1919, the World's Christian
Fundamentals Association (WCFA).
- Analyze the origins of Christian Fundamentalism in late 19th- and early 20th-century America
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- The southern states, mainly Roman Catholic, were angered by this.
- The Thirty Years' War devastated entire regions, with famine and disease significantly decreasing the populations of the German and Italian states, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Southern Netherlands.
- However, under the leadership of the exiled William the Silent, the northern provinces continued their resistance.
- Since Lutheran Sweden preferred Osnabrück as a conference venue, its peace negotiations with the Holy Roman Empire, including the allies of both sides, took place in Osnabrück.
- Christians living in principalities where their denomination was not the established church were guaranteed the right to practice their faith in public during allotted hours and in private at their will.
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- A major component was the Social Gospel Movement, which applied Christianity to social issues and gained its force from the Awakening, as did the worldwide missionary movement.
- New groupings emerged, such as the Holiness and Nazarene movements, and Christian Science.
- At the same time, the Catholic Church grew rapidly, with a base in the German, Irish, Polish, and Italian immigrant communities, and a leadership drawn from the Irish.
- Increased racist violence, including lynchings and race riots, lead to a strong deterioration of living conditions of African Americans in the Southern states.