The Montgomery Bus Boycott: The Civil Rights Movement

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was created in 1957 to better organized the Civil Rights protest activities across the South. The founder of the SCLC are Martin Luther King Jr., Bayard Rustin, Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth, and others . The Montgomery bus boycott had help the formation of SCLC. In 1957 their first campaign was the Crusade for Citizenship that sparked the civil rights bill and pended Congress. They believe in nonviolent action to accomplish social, economic, political justice and to focus on racial profiling, police brutality, hate crimes, and discrimination. They participate boycotts, marches, and other nonviolent events and held meetings in black churches as an important symbols in the battle for civil rights.