Fr0m AJC.com: Working on behalf of the Southern Christian Leadership Council, Andrew Young was Mr. Behind the Scenes for much of the civil rights movement, negotiating with white officials, bailing protestors out of jail and representing them in court. “Dr. [Martin Luther] King would not let me go to jail,” Young said recently. “He wanted […]
VIA: WHIO-TV.com The national board of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference has called a meeting Saturday to consider removing Rev. Raleigh Trammell of Dayton, Ohio from the board. Dr. Arthur Rocker, a national board member, said the group will meet in Atlanta and take a vote on Trammell’s removal. The move follows allegations of misuse […]
VIA: AJC.com Three officials with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference met in Atlanta with federal and local investigators looking into allegations that the national chairman and former treasurer mishandled hundreds of thousands of the organization’s money. Agent Michael Brooks with the FBI in Cincinnati confirmed Wednesday “investigation is continuing and that it has included interviews […]
VIA: Dayton Daily News DAYTON — Federal agents on Thursday, Feb. 11, removed computers and several bins and boxes from the home of the Rev. Raleigh Trammell, the national board chairman of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Trammell is also chairman of the Dayton chapter of the SCLC and is a top official at the […]
VIA: AJC.com A Fulton County judge has signed an order cutting off the access the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s national treasurer has to SCLC funds. In his place, two of three people – board members Curtis Harris, Rita Samuel or Jewel Devereaux – are now required to sign any checks drawn on the organization’s bank […]
VIA: AJC.com The Southern Christian Leadership Conference officials dismissed last month may have diverted at least $569,000 of the civil rights group’s money to bank accounts they controlled, according to the new board chairwoman and documents obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The SCLC’s former chairman, Rev. Raleigh Trammell, and former treasurer Spiver Gordon have been […]
