Story highlights Donald Trump's campaign says he will pick up 100 black religious leaders' endorsement Monday

The support comes after Trump courted racial and religious controversies

Washington (CNN) Donald Trump's campaign says he'll pick up the endorsement of a coalition of 100 African-American pastors and evangelical leaders Monday in New York City.

The real estate mogul and Republican presidential front-runner's campaign announced the endorsement -- which it said will come after a private meeting at Trump Tower -- on Wednesday.

Trump's campaign scheduled an endorsement event for 1 p.m. ET. It has not released the names of the religious leaders who are set to endorse Trump.

The endorsements would come a little more than a week after Trump stirred racial controversies.

He cheered a crowd's physical ejection of a Black Lives Matter protester from an event in Birmingham, Alabama, saying the man might have deserved to be "roughed up."

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