Jabarkan Presiden dari Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• 1957–1968 Martin Luther King Jr.

• 1997–2004 Martin Luther King III

• 2004–2009 Charles Steele Jr.

• 2009–2011 Howard W. Creecy Jr.

• 2012–sekarang Charles Steele Jr.

Fairclough, Adam. "The Preachers and the People: The Origins and Early Years of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1955-1959." Journal of Southern History (1986): 403-440. in JSTOR

Fairclough, Adam. To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr. (University of Georgia Press, 2001)

Garrow, David. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1986); Pulitzer Prize

Peake, Thomas R. Keeping the dream alive: A history of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference from King to the nineteen-eighties (P. Lang, 1987)