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SCLC Dispute Continues With 2 Separate National Conventions

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SCLC dispute continues with two separate national conventions

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is holding its annual convention this week, and it won't be the last one this month.

A competing faction of the civil rights group will hold its own national convention later in the month.

Such is the sad state of the civil rights group founded by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957.

For the first time in its 53-year history, the group that helped organize and rally black Americans during the civil rights battles of the late 1950s and 1960s has to hold different conventions in Atlanta for two factions.

Future SCLC President Rev. Bernice King has asked the divided leadership of the group to end their fighting.

King was elected president in October but hasn't taken control of the group. She said she wants to wait until the courts decide which faction is the rightful holder of the SCLC name and mantle of leadership.

Perhaps the fighting factions will come together, and maybe King will take the unified group to new heights to lead black people to the promised land of prosperity.

All of that would be nice, but I'll believe it when I see it.



 

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