Southern Christian Leadership Conference Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Jackson conference=== In 1966, [[Allen Johnson (activist)|Allen Johnson]] hosted the Tenth Annual Southern Christian Leadership Conference at the Masonic Temple in [[Jackson, Mississippi]].<ref name=king>{{cite web|title=Program from the SCLC's Tenth Annual Convention|url=http://www.thekingcenter.org/archive/document/program-sclcs-tenth-annual-convention|publisher=The King Center|access-date=7 September 2015|archive-date=September 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926015755/http://www.thekingcenter.org/archive/document/program-sclcs-tenth-annual-convention|url-status=dead}}</ref> The theme of the conference was human rights - the continuing struggle.<ref name=king/> Those in attendance, among others, included: [[Edward Kennedy]], [[James Bevel]], [[Martin Luther King Jr.]], [[Ralph Abernathy]], [[Curtis W. Harris]], [[Walter E. Fauntroy]], [[C. T. Vivian]], [[Andrew Young]], [[The Freedom Singers]], [[Charles Evers]], [[Fred Shuttlesworth]], [[Cleveland Robinson]], [[Randolph Blackwell]], [[Annie Bell Robinson Devine]], [[Charles Kenzie Steele]], [[Alfred Daniel Williams King]], [[Benjamin Hooks]], [[Aaron Henry (politician)|Aaron Henry]] and [[Bayard Rustin]].<ref name=king/> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page