In 1957 Martin Luther King helped establish this religious organization, the SCLC
[DOC] [TLE] Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) [PAR] Under the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr., the organization drew on the 
power and ... with fellow ministers C. K. Steele and Fred Shuttlesworth in January 
1957, ... to be renamed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference) at 
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