After much discussion with his advisors, King invited southern black ministers to the Southern Negro Leaders Conference on Transportation and Non… In 1965, SCLC launched a major campaign to register black voters. In the same year, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act. The proportion of hospital-based SCLC cases in counties was higher than that in cities from 2008 to 2017. The catalyst for the formation of SCLC was the Montgomery bus boycott. In 1961 and 1962, SCLC joined SNCC in the Albany Movement, a broad protest against segregation in Albany, Georgia.It is generally considered the organization's first major nonviolent campaign. How much this was a response to what SCLC had done in Selma, Alabama, is difficult to judge. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is a civil rights organization founded in 1957, as an offshoot of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), which successfully staged a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery Alabama's segregated bus system. 2015, while the proportion of population-based SCLC cases in counties increased relatively slowly from 5.2% to 6.3% during 2010–2015. At the time, it was considered by many to be unsuccessful: despite large demonstrations and many arrests, few changes were won, and the protests drew little national attention.
In this year, King had attempted to register 400 black voters in the city. The proportion of hospital-based SCLC cases was notably different from that of population-based SCLC cases. In these papers, he asked whether an organization was needed to coordinate these activities. Following the success of the boycott in 1956, Bayard Rustin wrote a series of working papers to address the possibility of expanding the efforts in Montgomery to other cities throughout the South.