Jones, Charles, 1937-2019

Authoritative Name:
Jones, Charles, 1937-2019
Biography:
Charlotte, North Carolina native, Jones was involved in 1960 sit-in attempts and organized SNCC at Shaw University in 1960. He served as chair of SNCC's direct action committee. He was one of the Rock Hill, South Carolina Four. After riding from Atlanta, Georgia to Birimingham, Alabama on a Greyhound bus on May 24 and 25, 1961, he was arrested as a Freedom Rider in Montgomery, Alabama. While working with Charles Sherrod, Cordell Reagon, and the Albany Movement members, he went to jail on two occasions with Dr. King. He graduated from Howard University Law School in 1966 and passed the North Carolina Bar in 1976.
Associated Subjects:
Jones, Charles, 1937-2019
Archival Collections And Reference Resources:

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Joseph Charles Jones

Creator:
Montgomery County (Ala.). Sheriff's Dept.
Date of Original:
1961-05-25
Collection:
Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement
Contributing Institution:
Montgomery County (Ala.). Archives

Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of African American civil rights workers, Georgia National Guardsmen, and city officials in Albany, Georgia, 1961 December

Creator:
WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:
1961-12-00
Collection:
WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of a civil rights march and resulting arrest; civil rights preachers and local officials speaking at mass meetings; groups of Albany city officials as well as civil rights leaders entering the federal courthouse; and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy at a press conference in Albany, Georgia, 1962 July

Creator:
WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:
1962-07-01
Collection:
WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of civil rights movement leaders speaking to a mass meeting as well as other scenes typical of the Albany Movement in Albany, Georgia, 1962

Creator:
WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:
1962-00-00
Collection:
WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of scenes typical of the Albany Movement including the bus boycott, Albany Movement president Dr. William G. Anderson speaking with attorney C. B. King, and an interview with U.S. representative William F. Ryan of New York in Albany, Georgia, 1962

Creator:
WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:
1962-00-00
Collection:
WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

WSB-TV newsfilm clip of African American students arrested after a kneel-in at city hall in Albany, Georgia, 1962 July 27

Creator:
WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:
1962-07-27
Collection:
WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

WSB-TV newsfilm clip of African American students holding a kneel-in at city hall in Albany, Georgia, 1962 July 27

Creator:
WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:
1962-07-27
Collection:
WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
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