 The riots were one of the events that helped convince King and some other civil rights activists to join the ongoing Chicago Freedom Movement in combating the widespread "de facto" segregated conditions across the country.The Chicago Freedom Movement represented the alliance of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), and the Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (CCCO).SCLC was looking for a site to prove that nonviolence and nonviolent direct action could bring about social change outside of the South.