1950 January 8

Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Organized

 

The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) was organized on this day as a coalition of civil rights organizations. Initially, three organizations took the lead in forming the coalition.

Today the organization is the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and has more than 200 member organizations, representing a wide range of groups and issues, and is the leading advocate for civil rights on issues in Washington, D.C.

Go to the LCCR website: http://www.civilrights.org/

Read the monumental Three-Volume biography of Martin Luther King by Taylor Branch: Parting the Waters (1998). Pillar of Fire (1998). At Canaan’s Edge (2006)

The “Sixties” really began in the mid-1950s and ended in the early 1970s. Read: Christopher B. Strain, The Long Sixties: America, 1955-1973 (2016)

Visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture here

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