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Martin Luther King Jr. to help organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) but parted ways with the group in 1960 over their leadership model. SCLC, like many civil rights organizations of the period, built the organization around one central (male) leader, mirroring the leadership structure of Black churches. Moreover, the

In 1946, President Truman appointed, by executive order, a blue-ribbon committee to study the civil rights problem in all its aspects, and the committee’s report, “To Secure These Rights,” called not only for a permanent FEPC, abolition of the poll tax, and federal laws against lynchings but also for the establishment of a permanent Commission on

for reconciliation to be achieved in the church, a place must be made for minorities to serve in positions of leadership. The leadership of the Church must reflect the Revelation 7 vision: “all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues” (KJV).

The Urban League, however, was advocacy-which meant action-constituency-based services to black people.