- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Albany Movement Leaders
- Publisher:
- Freedomways: A Newsletter of the Prison and Jail Project. Americus, GA: Koinonia Partners, Prison and Jail Project, 1995-.
- Date of Original:
- 1961/1962
- Subject:
- Civil rights workers--Georgia--Albany
Women civil rights workers--Georgia--Albany
African American women civil rights workers--Georgia--Albany
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Albany
African American businesspeople--Georgia--Albany
Businesspeople--Georgia--Albany
Businessmen--Georgia--Albany
African American men--Georgia--Albany
African American women--Georgia--Albany
Men--Georgia--Albany
Women--Georgia--Albany
Civil rights--Georgia--Albany
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Albany
African American clergy--Georgia--Albany
Clergy--Georgia--Albany
Baptists--Clergy
Racism--Georgia--Albany
African Americans--Race discrimination
African Americans--Social conditions
Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.) - People:
- King, Slater, 1927-1969
Jackson, Elza Goldie
Chatmon, Thomas C., 1919-2003
Thomas, Robert, social activist
Wells, Samuel B., 1916-2005 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Albany, 31.57851, -84.15574
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- The Albany Movement leaders included, from left, Slater King, the president of the movement; Elza Goldie Jackson, the recording secretary; the Reverend Sammie B. Wells, the chairman of voter registration; Thomas Chatmon, the director of voter registration; and Robert Thomas, a local barber and active volunteer.
Photograph of Albany Movement leaders included, from left, Slater King, the president of the movement; Elza Goldie Jackson, the recording secretary; the Reverend Sammie B. Wells, the chairman of voter registration; Thomas Chatmon, the director of voter registration; and Robert Thomas, a local barber and active volunteer.
According to traditional accounts the Albany Movement began in fall 1961 and ended in summer 1962. It 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-2403/
- Rights Holder:
- Reprinted from Freedomways
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/albany-movement
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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