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Albany Civil Rights Museum

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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.
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  1. African Americans
  2. Albany
  3. Albany (Ga.)
  4. Albany Civil Rights Movement Museum (Albany, Ga.)
  5. Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.)
  6. Buildings
  7. Buildings, Structures, Etc
  8. Church Buildings
  9. Civil Rights
  10. Georgia
  11. Mt. Zion Baptist Church (Albany, Ga.)
  12. Museum Buildings
  13. Museums
  14. Spires

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