Black Liberation Archives

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr., who had a large role in the American civil rights movement. On January 10, 1957, following the Montgomery bus boycott victory against the white democracy and consultations with Bayard Rustin, Ella Baker, and others, Martin Luther King Jr. invited about 60 black ministers and leaders to Ebenezer Church in Atlanta. Prior to this, Rustin, in New York City, conceived the idea of initiating such an effort and first sought C. K. Steele to make the call and take the lead role. Steele declined, but told Rustin he would be glad to work right beside him if he sought King in Montgomery for the role. Their goal was to form an organization to coordinate and support nonviolent direct action as a method of desegregating bus systems across the South. In addition to King, Rustin, Baker, and Steele, Fred Shuttlesworth of Birm...

My Notes: Black Liberation Theology was very popular in the 1960's. We often engaged in many debates concerning the role of the black church in the liberation struggle. James Cone and others, played a fundamental role in shaping these debates.  As everyone remember's, President Obama was criticized for attending one of the sermons where Rev. Wright preached about racism in American Society. Rev. Wright was a disciple of James Cone. The Information below was taken from Wikipedia. Read with caution.  Black Liberation Theology James Hal Cone  (1938–2018) was an American  theologian , best known for his advocacy of  black theology  and black  liberation theology . His 1969 book  Black Theology and Black Power  provided a new way to comprehensively define the distinctiveness of theology in the black church. His message was that Black Power, defined as black people asserting the humanity that white supremacy denied, was the gospel in A...