Organizing a Movement: SCLC and Bus Boycotts

Rev. Joseph E. Lowery

The late Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, Co-founder and President Emeritus of Southern Christian Leadership Conference, recalls the founding of SCLC, efforts to desegregate buses, and how the arrest of Rosa Parks engaged the community. He reflected, "When they arrested her, they arrested the whole black community in Montgomery.”

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