Why did Martin Luther King Jr., Bayard Rustin, and Ralph Abernathy decide to form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957?
A)They feared that the civil rights movement was lacking Christian values.
B)They disliked the feminist leadership of activist Rosa parks.
C)They wanted to keep the momentum of the Montgomery bus boycott.
D)They wanted to prevent northern activists from taking over the civil rights movement.

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They formed the SCLC to capitalize on the success of the Montgomery bus boycott and to foster and conduct non-violent protests against the injustices faced by African-Americans in the South.

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