- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- King in Albany
- Creator:
- WALB (Television station : Albany, Ga.)
- Publisher:
- WALB newsfilm of the burned ruins of African American churches in Terrell and Lee counties, Georgia, 1962 August and September, Albany Movement compilation, WALB News Film collection, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Award Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Ga.
- Date of Original:
- 1962
- Subject:
- Church buildings--Georgia
Fires--Georgia--Leesburg (Lee County)
Ruined buildings--Georgia--Leesburg (Lee County)
Civil rights workers--Georgia--Leesburg (Lee County)
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Leesburg (Lee County)
Men--Georgia--Leesburg (Lee County)
African American men--Georgia--Leesburg (Lee County)
Voter registration--Georgia--Leesburg (Lee County)
Clergy--Georgia--Leesburg (Lee County)
African American clergy--Georgia--Leesburg (Lee County)
African American churches--Georgia--Leesburg (Lee County)
Buildings--Georgia--Leesburg (Lee County)
Shady Grove Baptist Church (Leesburg, Lee County, Ga.)
Leesburg (Lee County, Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc. - People:
- Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Walker, Wyatt Tee - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Lee County, Leesburg, 31.73212, -84.17074
- Medium:
- news
video recordings (physical artifacts) - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Martin Luther King Jr. (second from left) stands in front of a burned church in Albany. In 1961 King arrived in Albany at the invitation of local Black leaders to participate in the Albany Movement, a campaign to integrate the city. The movement began in fall 1961 and ended in summer 1962.
Image from a 1962 WALB newsfilm clip in which Martin Luther King Jr., second from left, stands in front of the burned ruins of the Shady Grove Baptist Church near Leesburg, in Lee County, Georgia, along with Reverends Ralph D. Abernathy and Wyatt T. Walker and three unidentified men. This church was used for African American voter registration, leading many community members to suspect that the church was destroyed for intimidation purposes.
State officials who inspected the sites stated that the fires were caused by either lightning or faulty wiring. In response to the suspected arsons at these voter registration meeting sites, the United States Justice Department considered filing a federal suit alleging voter intimidation. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/martin-luther-king-jr-1929-1968/m-10019/
- Rights Holder:
- Contact repository re: reproduction and usage
Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia Libraries - Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/martin-luther-king-jr-1929-1968
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia
WALB News Film Collection - Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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