- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Albany Movement
- Creator:
- WALB (Television station : Albany, Ga.)
- Date of Original:
- 1962
- Subject:
- Civil rights--Georgia--Albany
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Albany
Segregation--Georgia--Albany
Signs and signboards--Georgia--Albany
Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--Albany
Passive resistance--Georgia--Albany
Nonviolence--Georgia--Albany
Protest marches--Georgia--Albany
Imprisonment--Georgia--Albany
Civil rights movements--Georgia--Albany
Albany (Ga.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Women--Georgia--Albany
Men--Georgia--Albany
African American women--Georgia--Albany
African American men--Georgia--Albany
Civil rights workers--Georgia--Albany
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Albany
Women civil rights workers--Georgia--Albany
African American women civil rights workers--Georgia--Albany
Racism--Georgia--Albany
African Americans--Race discrimination
African Americans--Social conditions
Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.) - People:
- Pritchett, Laurie, 1926-2000
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Albany, 31.57851, -84.15574
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Demonstrators protest the imprisonment of fellow protestors by Albany police sheriff Laurie Pritchett during the Albany Movement, a collaborative effort by such civil rights groups as SNCC, the SCLC, and the NAACP to desegregate the city of Albany in 1961-62.
Image of demonstrators protesting the imprisonment of fellow protesters by Albany, Georgia police sheriff Laurie Pritchett during the Albany Movement, a collaborative effort by such civil rights groups as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to desegregate the city of Albany during 1961 and 1962. An African American woman stands at the front of a line of protesters holding signs. Her sign reads, "Oh, Pritchett, open them cells."The protestors march in the street. Four white men watch the protestors from the side of the street. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/student-nonviolent-coordinating-committee-sncc/m-10018/
- Rights Holder:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia Libraries
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: WALB newsfilm clip of African Americans arrested for picketing in downtown Albany, Georgia, 1962 July 28, Albany Movement compilation, WALB News Film collection, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Award Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Ga.
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/student-nonviolent-coordinating-committee-sncc
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia
WSB Television Newsfilm Collection - Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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