The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was a Civil rights organization founded in 1957. The (SCLC) mission was to "redeem the soul of America". Also, the (SCLC) moved the national conscience to support civil rights initiatives. The (SCLC) motto was "Not one hair of one head of one white person shall be harmed". The (SCLC) was known for being a major participant in the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Also, the (SCLC) was an offshoot of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). Cause of that (SCLC) successfully staged a 381-day boycott of Montgomery Alabama's segregated bus system. The (SCLC) was founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr., Bayard Rustin, Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth, and other protest groups in the South. Some challenges that the (SCLC) faced were leadership battles, financial troubles, internal fends, and shrinking memberships. Charles Steele Jr. was the president during this time when the (SCLC) had happened. An accomplishment that the (SCLC) did, was help promote the civil rights March on Washington in 1963. Also, the (SCLC) organized large, nonviolent protests in places like Birmingham and Selam. Not only that the (SCLC) had a less well-known component called the Citizenship Education Program (CEP), which provided a voter education program for potential black voters. One thing that Martin Luther King Jr. did to help the (SCLC) was lecture in all parts of the country and discuss race-related issues with religious and civil rights leaders. The (SCLC) ended shortly after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, so Abernathy into the organization's presidency. Since Abernathy could not match King's leadership talents like King's speech, he had difficulty with fundraising, which led to the (SCLC) marked decline in influence. Just check the punctuation and grammer and correct it