The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) hosts some 80 representatives in Atlanta, Georgia at the so-called Minority Group Conference in preparation for the Poor People’s Campaign (see timeline entry for December 4, 1967).

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June 29, 2018

In 1989, the December I2th Movement International Secretariat (IS) first goes to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, as part of a group called Freedom Now, a campaign seeking amnesty for political prisoners and prisoners of war in the US. Many of the IS members are veterans of the African Liberation Support Committee of the 1970s.

September 7, 2018

James Forman, director of international affairs for Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); Lucius Walker, executive director of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO); and 25 members of the National Black Economic Development Conference (NBEDC) meet with leaders of the Episcopal Church to present the Black Manifesto.

March 23, 2019

Georgia restored many Cherokee landmarks, a newspaper plant, and other buildings in New Echota. It also repealed its repressive anti-Native American laws of 1830 (Race, Racism, and Reparations by J. Angelo Corlett, 2003, Cornell University Press, p. 170).