Desegregation and voters' rights coalition formed in Albany, Georgia
Albany Movement
Part of the Civil Rights Movement
Date
1961–1962
Location
Albany, Georgia in Dougherty County and adjacent counties – Baker, Lee, Mitchell, Sumter, and Terrell
Caused by
Racial segregation
Desegregation order from Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
Parties
Albany Movement (coalition)
Ministerial Alliance
Federation of Women's Clubs
Negro Voters League
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
NAACP Youth Council
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Albany Board of City Commissioners
City Manager of Albany
Albany Police Department
Albany State College
Lead figures
SCLC members
Martin Luther King Jr.
SNCC members
Charles Sherrod
Cordell Reagon
J. Charles Jones
City of Albany
Asa Kelley, Albany Mayor and Chairman of City Commissioners
Steve Roos, City Manager of Albany
Laurie Pritchett, Albany Chief of Police
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State of Georgia
Gray v. Sanders
Bond v. Floyd
City of Albany
Albany Freedom Rides
Albany movement
City of Americus
Americus movement
Leesburg Stockade
City of Atlanta
Holmes v. City of Atlanta
Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple bombing
Atlanta sit-ins
Atlanta's Berlin Wall
Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States
City of Columbus
King v. Chapman
City of Savannah
Savannah Protest Movement
Wright v. Georgia
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University of Georgia desegregation riot
Murder of Lemuel Penn
United States v. Guest
The Albany Movement was a desegregation and voters' rights coalition formed in Albany, Georgia, in November 1961. This movement was founded by local black leaders and ministers, as well as members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).[1] The groups were assisted by Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). It was meant to draw attention to the brutally enforced racial segregation practices in Southwest Georgia. However, many leaders in SNCC were fundamentally opposed to King and the SCLC's involvement. They felt that a more democratic approach aimed at long-term solutions was preferable for the area other than King's tendency towards short-term, authoritatively-run organizing.[2]
Although the Albany Movement is deemed by some as a failure due to its unsuccessful attempt at desegregating public spaces in Southwest Georgia, those most directly involved in the movement tend to disagree. People involved in this movement labeled it as a beneficial lesson in strategy and tactics for the leaders of the civil rights movement and a key component to the movement's future successes in desegregation and policy changes in other areas of the Deep South.[2]
^Curry, Constance (2002). Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement. University of Georgia Press. pp. 141–142.
^ abHolsaert, Faith S. (2012). Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. University of Illinois Press. p. 88.
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