The SCLC's goal was to "coordinate and support nonviolent direct action" to end segregation. It was an organization that got involved in local black communities and helped to form strategies to overcome the problems of racial segregation. It funded and sent representatives to guide or lead the various operations it supported, including protests, literacy education for blacks, and sometimes anti-poverty programs.
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The SCLC was founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King, Jr.
The SNCC prefered more direct tactics unlike the SCLC
Robert Moses
Dr. Martin Luther King, Rev. Joseph Lowery, and Dr. Simmie Lee Harve
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was created in April 1960 by Ella Baker, then-director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, with an $800 grant from the SCLC. Also in attendance at the first conference were Marion Berry, James Bevel, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, J. Charles Jones, Bernard Lafayette, James Lawson, John Lewis, Charles F. McDew and Diane Nash. [foregoing from Wikipedia.org]