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

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.

June 29, 2018

Resolution on reparations is sponsored by Aldermember Dorothy Tillman in Chicago City Council.

September 7, 2018

James Forman presents the Black Manifesto at denominational headquarters and Protestant institutions, including a nailing of a copy of the Manifesto to the doors of the national headquarters of the Lutheran Church in America.