The SCLC appealed to the supreme court of the country to break the link between race and poverty in the United States.
This was the acronym for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. This body was an anti discrimination and civil rights body that lived in that part of the country.
The powers lied in the constitution of the country for the courts to declare these inequalities as illegal.
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