Martin Luther King Jr.

=== Scripto strike in Atlanta, 1964 ===
{{Main|1964–1965 Scripto strike}}
Starting in November 1964, King supported a [[labor strike]] by several hundred workers at the [[Scripto]] factory in Atlanta, just a few blocks from Ebenezer Baptist.<ref name=":5">{{Cite journal |last1=Hooper |first1=Hartwell |last2=Hooper |first2=Susan |date=Fall 1999 |title=The Scripto Strike: Martin Luther King's 'Valley of Problems': Atlanta, 1964–1965 |url=https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/AHBull/id/16887/ |journal=[[Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South]] |publisher=[[Atlanta Historical Society]] |volume=XLIII |issue=3 |pages=5–34 |access-date=September 26, 2022 |archive-date=September 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220921211150/https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/AHBull/id/16887/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Many of the strikers were congregants of his church, and the strike was supported by other civil rights leaders.<ref name=":5" /> King helped elevate the labor dispute from a local to nationally known event and led the SCLC to organize a nationwide boycott of Scripto products.<ref name=":5" /> However, as the strike stretched into December, King, who was wanting to focus more on a civil rights campaign in [[Selma, Alabama]], began to negotiate in secret with Scripto's president [[Carl Singer]] and eventually brokered a deal where the SCLC would call off their boycott in exchange for the company giving the striking employees their Christmas bonuses.<ref name=":5" /> King's involvement in the strike ended on December 24 and a contract between the company and union was signed on January 9.<ref name=":5" />