ATLANTA — After nearly 10 months of silence, the Rev. Bernice King urged the Southern Christian Leadership Conference on Tuesday to end the bitter infighting that has split the group she was elected to lead.
Kingsaid at a news conference she still plans to lead the civil rightsgroup but declined to say when she would take the post. She hasindicated she would wait out the bickering and legal wrangling.
"Ibelieve that the time is now for us to come together in unity as oneSCLC," King said. "A house divided against itself cannot stand. TheSCLC family must be about the business of restoring, rebuilding andredeeming its own internal soul as we continue in our quest to redeemthe soul of America."
Shortly after her election in October by aunified SCLC, the leadership of the group co-founded by her father, theRev. Martin Luther King Jr., split into two factions that have sincemet and made decisions separately. The SCLC is awaiting a decision froma judge as to which faction controls the group.
As the factionsprepare to host dueling conventions in the next week, King says shewill lead a prayer vigil for the SCLC on Friday at Ebenezer BaptistChurch — where her father preached from 1960 until his death in 1968and across the street from where her parents are buried.
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