King gathered with other civil-rights leaders in Atlanta Jan. 10-11, 1957, to found the SCLC. He was elected president of the organization. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity, its operational techniques from Gandhi. The NAACP was founded in 1909; King was, however, a member of the executive committee of the NAACP in the 1950s. The ACLU was founded in 1920. The UN officially came into existence in 1945.
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