- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Albany Movement
- Date of Original:
- 1961/1962
- Subject:
- Civil rights workers--Georgia--Albany
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Albany
African American businesspeople--Georgia--Albany
Businesspeople--Georgia--Albany
Businessmen--Georgia--Albany
Civil rights--Georgia--Albany
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Albany
African American children--Georgia--Albany
Children--Georgia--Albany
Women--Georgia--Albany
Men--Georgia--Albany
African American men--Georgia--Albany
African American women--Georgia--Albany
African American women civil rights workers--Georgia--Albany
Voter registration--Georgia--Albany
Racism--Georgia--Albany
African Americans--Race discrimination
African Americans--Social conditions
Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.) - People:
- King, Slater, 1927-1969
Chatmon, Thomas C., 1919-2003
King, Marion, 1932-2007 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Albany, 31.57851, -84.15574
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- (Left to right) Thomas Chatmon, Marion King, and an unidentified woman register to vote, to the apparent dismay of the office worker. They are accompanied by young Jonathon King and Slater King (far right).
Photograph of Albany, Georgia residents Thomas Chatmon, Marion King, an unidentified voter, and Slater King participating in voter registration. The office worker, a white woman, stands behind the counter and seems to be protesting their registration.
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/exhibition/black-leaders-of-the-civil-rights-movement/m-2516/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Cochran Studios/A. E. Jenkins Photography
- 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)
- Rights: