- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Albany Civil Rights Movement Museum
- Date of Original:
- 1998/2022
- Subject:
- Civil rights--Georgia--Albany
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Albany
Church buildings--Georgia--Albany
Museums--Georgia--Albany
Spires
Museum buildings--Georgia--Albany
Buildings--Georgia--Albany
Mt. Zion Baptist Church (Albany, Ga.)
Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.)
Albany Civil Rights Movement Museum (Albany, Ga.)
Albany (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc. - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- color photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- The Albany Civil Rights Movement Museum (later the Albany Civil Rights Institute) opened in 1998 in the former Old Mt. Zion Church. In 1961 Martin Luther King Jr. organized a mass meeting of civil rights activists, which met at the church. The museum moved to a new facility adjacent to Old Mt. Zion in 2008.
Photograph of the Albany Civil Rights Museum in Albany, Georgia. The Albany Civil Rights Movement Museum is located in the Old Mt. Zion Baptist Church. It is a brick church with two low spires rising from the front. The former church was renovated in the 1990s, and the museum opened in 1998. The first mass meeting of the Albany Movement was held at the church in 1961.
The Albany Movement was the first mass movement in the modern civil rights era to have as its goal the desegregation of an entire community, and it resulted in the jailing of more than 1,000 African Americans in Albany and surrounding rural counties. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/albany-movement/m-2397/
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/albany-movement
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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