{"id":"y80jchg","internal_id":"854bebed-9247-48ba-8098-8d716bdf84a6","links":{"img_thumbnail":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/downloads/deriv/rhuvbt9/thumb_large_2X?disposition=inline","html_self":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/y80jchg"},"title":"Letter from Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), March 9, 1968","additional_title":[],"format":["text"],"genre":["Business correspondence","Records (Documents)"],"medium":[],"extent":["21.6 cm W x 28 cm H (and smaller)"],"language":["English"],"provenance":"","subject":["Julian, Percy Lavon, 1899-1975","Southern Christian Leadership Conference","King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968","Civil rights movements","African Americans--Civil rights"],"department":"Archives","series_arrangement":[],"rights":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/","rights_holder":"","digitization_funder":"","file_creator":"Auerbach, Jahna","description":"Letter from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to Percy Lavon Julian (1899-1975) regarding the Poor People’s Campaign. Signed by Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968), the letter outlines the organization’s work in Chicago, including the ongoing struggle for open-housing legislation in Illinois. It also includes the campaign’s plans and demands, along with a response survey.\n\nThe Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was an African American civil rights organization, founded in 1957 under the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. The Poor Peoples' Campaign was a 1968 effort, organized by the SCLC, that sought to unite poor and working-class Americans across racial and ethnic lines and called for greater economic opportunity, employment, housing, and other forms of economic justice.\n","description_html":"<p>Letter from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to Percy Lavon Julian (1899-1975) regarding the Poor People’s Campaign. Signed by Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968), the letter outlines the organization’s work in Chicago, including the ongoing struggle for open-housing legislation in Illinois. It also includes the campaign’s plans and demands, along with a response survey.</p>\n\n<p>The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was an African American civil rights organization, founded in 1957 under the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. The Poor Peoples' Campaign was a 1968 effort, organized by the SCLC, that sought to unite poor and working-class Americans across racial and ethnic lines and called for greater economic opportunity, employment, housing, and other forms of economic justice.\n</p>","published_at":"2026-08-10T13:38:19Z","updated_at":"2026-08-10T13:38:19Z","creator":[{"category":"author","value":"Southern Christian Leadership Conference"},{"category":"addressee","value":"Julian, Percy Lavon, 1899-1975"}],"date_of_work":[{"start":"1968-03-09","start_qualifier":"","finish":"","finish_qualifier":"","note":"","formatted":"1968-Mar-09"}],"place":[{"category":"place_of_creation","value":"Illinois--Chicago"}],"inscription":[],"related_link":[],"additional_credit":[],"physical_container":null}