Central Committee 1963

The Central Committee 1963 is a group of civil rights movement organizers that met at the A. G. Gaston Motel during the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Birmingham campaign. The following list was recorded by Central Committee Secretary Ruth Barefield-Pendleton:

Central Committee 1963

Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights
Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, president of ACMHR
• Reverend Edward Gardner, vice-president of ACMHR
• W. E. Shortridge, Shortridge Funeral Home
• Georgia Price
• Reverend A. D. King
• A. G. Gaston, business owner
• Lucius Pitts, president of Miles College
• Arthur Shores, attorney
• Bishop E. P. Murchison, Colored Methodist Episcopal Church
• Revered John Porter, 6th Avenue Baptist Church
• Pastor Joseph Ellwanger, St Paul Lutheran Church
• Reverend Harold Long, First Congregational Christian Church
• Reverend N. L. Linsey
• John Drew
• Addine Drew
• Reverend J. W. Hayes
• Reverend Herbert Oliver
• Reverend Abraham Woods Jr, First Metropolitan Baptist Church
• Reverend Calvin Woods, East End Baptist Church
• Willa Adams
• B. M. Jefferson
• James T. Montgomery
• Reverend John Cross, 16th Street Baptist Church
• Reverend A. W. Thomas
• Ruth Barefield-Pendleton
• Reverend Nelson Smith Jr, New Pilgrim Baptist Church
• Reverend Otis Flournoy, St Paul United Methodist Church
• Reverend C. H. George, Sardis Missionary Baptist Church
• Lola Hendricks
• Reverend Charles Billups
• Tommy Wrenn
• Katie Jefferson, SCLC
• Martin Luther King Jr, SCLC
• Reverend Ralph Abernathy, SCLC
• Reverend Wyatt T. Walker, SCLC
• Reverend Andrew Young, SCLC
• Reverend C. T. Vivian, SCLC
• Dorothy Cotton
• Willie Mackey
• Dora McDonald
• Carole Hoover
• Reverend Bernard Lee
• Reverend James Bevel, ACMHR
• Dianne Bevel
• Reverend Joseph Lowery, SCLC
• Reverend James Orange, ACMHR
• Orzell Billingsley, attorney
• Norman Amaker (NAACP-New York)
• Jack Greenberg (NAACP-New York)
• Oscar Adams Jr, attorney