What American Baptist minister and activist led a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
Birmingham campaign The Birmingham campaign, or Birmingham movement, was a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama. Led by Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel, Fred Shuttlesworth and others, the campaign of nonviolent direct action culminated in widely publicized confrontations between young black students and white civic authorities, and eventually led the municipal government to change the city's discrimination laws.
Jerry Sutton Dr. Jerry Sutton is a Southern Baptist pastor, historian, and administrator. His theology is best described as conservative and evangelical.