- Collection:
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
- Title:
- Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of Albany Movement lawyers at the Federal Building in Atlanta, Georgia and of a mass meeting protesting the conviction of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy in Shiloh Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia, 1962 July
- Creator:
- WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Date of Original:
- 1962-07-01
- Subject:
- Lawyers--Georgia--Albany
African American lawyers--Georgia--Albany
Lawyers--Georgia--Atlanta
African American lawyers--Georgia--Atlanta
Mass meetings--Georgia--Albany
African American physicians--Georgia--Albany
Physicians--Georgia--Albany
African American women--Georgia--Albany
Interviews--Georgia--Atlanta
Reporters and reporting--Georgia--Atlanta
Injunctions--Georgia--Albany
Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--Albany
Civil rights movements--Georgia--Albany
Direct action--Georgia--Albany
Passive resistance--Georgia--Albany
African American prisoners--Georgia--Albany
Imprisonment--Georgia--Albany
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Albany
Civil rights workers--Georgia--Albany
Police--Georgia--Albany
Courthouses--Georgia
Clergy--Florida
Restraining orders--Georgia--Albany
United States magistrates
Judges--United States
Courts--United States--Officials and employees
Police chief--Georgia--Albany
Albany (Ga.)--Politics and government--History--20th century
Albany (Ga.)--Race relations--History--20th century - People:
- Walker, Wyatt Tee
Anderson, William G., 1927-
King, C. B. (Chevene Bowers), 1923-1988
Hollowell, Donald L., 1917-2004
Ward, Horace T. (Horace Taliaferro), 1927-2016
Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919-1995
Elliott, J. Robert, 1910-
Tuttle, Elbert P. (Elbert Parr), 1897-1996
Jones, Clarence B., 1931-
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006
Abernathy, Juanita, 1929-
Pritchett, Laurie, 1926-2000
Steele, C. K. (Charles Kenzie), 1914-1980
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Trials, litigation, etc.
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990--Trials, litigation, etc. - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Albany, 31.57851, -84.15574
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- moving images
news
unedited footage - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- In this series of silent WSB newsfilm clips from July 1962, attorneys working for the Albany Movement are seen entering and exiting the United States Federal Building in Atlanta, Georgia; the clips also show a daytime mass meeting at Shiloh Baptist Church in Albany where Reverend Wyatt T. Walker, Dr. William G. Anderson, and Coretta Scott King speak; individuals protest the conviction of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy by wearing black armbands.
In the clips, lawyers representing the Albany Movement are seen outside the federal courthouse in Atlanta, entering and leaving the building, reading a newspaper, and being interviewed on the street by reporters. They include C. B. King of Albany, one of three African American lawyers outside of Atlanta and principal lawyer for the Albany Movement; Donald Hollowell of Atlanta, prominent civil rights lawyer and frequent adviser to the Albany Movement; Horace T. Ward of Atlanta, attorney in Hollowell's law firm; Clarence B. Jones of New York, attorney and King's speech writer and adviser; and William Kunstler of New York, a lawyer for the Gandhi Society.
On July 20, 1962, Albany city officials obtained a federal injunction from Federal District Judge J. Robert Elliott against King, Abernathy, and Albany Movement leaders barring mass demonstrations. In response, lawyers representing the Albany Movement obtained a hearing with chief appellate court judge Elbert P. Tuttle on July 24 in Atlanta. Tuttle dissolved the restraining order until the time that Elliott could hold a hearing.
The clips also include a mass meeting held in Shiloh Baptist Church in Albany on July 10, 1962. During the mass meeting, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) executive secretary Reverend Wyatt T. Walker pins black arm bands on Coretta Scott King, Juanita Abernathy, and other participants.
African Americans wore black arm bands to protest the convictions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy on July 10, 1962 for "parading without a permit" on December 16, 1961. King and Abernathy were sentenced to serve forty-five days in jail or pay a $178 fine; the men chose jail and their wives, Coretta and Juanita, came to Albany.
In the clip, two women are also seen entering the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse in Albany with attorneys Hollowell and C. B. King; they are Lucille Leslie Burton, and Carol King, wife of C. B. King. Coretta Scott King speaks at the mass meeting, as do Reverend Walker and Dr. William G. Anderson, president of the Albany Movement. Anderson is also seen speaking with Reverend C. K. Steele, SCLC minister from Tallahassee, Florida. In addition to the mass meeting seen in the clip, groups of African Americans stand outside city hall, gathering on the building steps before Albany police chief Laurie Pritchett clears the doorway and speaks to an older, unidentified white man who enters city hall.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Optical sound.
IMLS Grant, 2008.
Digibeta Center Cut (4 x 3) downconvert from HDD5 1080/23.98PsF film transfer.
Condition notes: 2009-03-01, Leader Replaced (Yancey) - Local Identifier:
- Clip number: wsbn44819
- Metadata URL:
- https://crdl.usg.edu/id:ugabma_wsbn44819
- Digital Object URL:
- https://crdl.usg.edu/do:ugabma_wsbn44819
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ugabma_wsbn_wsbn44819/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: wsbn44819, Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of Albany Movement lawyers at the Federal Building in Atlanta, Georgia and of a mass meeting protesting the conviction of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy in Shiloh Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia, 1962 July, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 1046, 10:03/16:55, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 clip (about 6 mins., 52 secs.): black-and-white, silent ; 16 mm.
- Original Collection:
- Original found in the WSB-TV newsfilm collection.
- Contributing Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
- Rights:
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