United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.387981950/1968King's interest in nonviolence became a central tenet of his leadership of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and helped lead a young generation of African Americans to promote desegregation through peaceful sit-ins.Photograph of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. walking down a street with two unidentified men. He wears a long dark coat and tie and looks left. King, a Baptist minister and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), was the most prominent African American leader in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.image/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/black-church-atlanta-politicshttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/civil-rights-movementhttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/martin-luther-king-jr-1929-1968Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/black-church-atlanta-politicshttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/civil-rights-movementhttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/martin-luther-king-jr-1929-1968Forms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaCivil rights workers--Georgia--AtlantaAfrican American civil rights workers--Georgia--AtlantaCivil rights--Georgia--AtlantaAfrican Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--AtlantaClergy--Georgia--AtlantaAfrican American clergy--Georgia--AtlantaAfrican American men--Georgia--AtlantaMen--Georgia--AtlantaStreets--Georgia--AtlantaElectric lines--Poles and towersMartin Luther King Jr. during Civil Rights MovementStillImage