The National Council of Churches (NCC) responds to the Black Manifesto by appointing a sixteen-member committee to negotiate with the National Black Economic Development Conference (NBEDC) and to bring program recommendations to the NCC.

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The Episcopal Church, Presbyterian Church (USA), United Methodist Church (UMC), United Church of Christ (UCC), and Unitarian Universalists (UU) pass resolutions or create commissions that call for a study of the history of slavery, the on-going harms and benefits of that history, and the possibility of reparations.

June 29, 2018

On April 16–17, 1968, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), now led by Ralph Abernathy, holds a meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, resolving to proceed with the Poor People’s Campaign (see timeline entry for December 4, 1967) and reorienting the campaign away from civil disobedience and toward the creation of a tent city in Washington, D.C.