women united

A human rights movement, King believed, held revolutionarypotential.  Speaking at a Southern Christian Leadership Conference staff retreat in May 1867, he told SCL staff, who were concerned that the Civil Rights Movement had lost its steam and its direction, "It is neccessary for us to realize that we have moved from the era of civil rights to the era of human rights."  Political reform efforts were no longer adequate to the task at hand, he said.  :For the last 12 years, we have been in a reform movement.