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Photograph of leaders of the Albany Movement. From left to right, attorney T. M. Jackson, chief counsel Donald Hollowell, Dr. William G. Anderson, and attorney C. B. King stand in front of the Albany, Georgia federal courthouse and post office. Hollowell and King each hold leather briefcases.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.
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  1. African American Civil Rights Workers
  2. African American Lawyers
  3. African American Men
  4. African American Physicians
  5. African Americans
  6. Albany
  7. Albany (Ga.)
  8. Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.)
  9. Anderson, William G., 1927
  10. Buildings, Structures, Etc
  11. Civil Rights
  12. Civil Rights Workers
  13. Courthouses
  14. Federal Building (Albany, Ga.)
  15. Georgia
  16. Hollowell, Donald
  17. Jackson, Thomas M. (Thomas Mitchell), 1932 1999
  18. King, C. B. (Chevene Bowers), 1923 1988
  19. Lawyers
  20. Men
  21. Osteopathic Physicians
  22. Physicians
  23. Public Buildings

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