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WALB newsfilm of police chief Laurie Pritchett speaking to reporters from his office about the outbreak of violence following the arrest of demonstrators at a night march in Albany, Georgia, 1962 July 24

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In this WALB newsfilm clip from Tuesday, July 24, 1962, Albany, Georgia, police chief Laurie Pritchett speaks to reporters from his office regarding an outbreak of violence following the arrest of demonstrators at a night march earlier that evening. Pritchett explains that approximately two thousand African Americans gathered at the intersection of Oglethorpe and Jackson streets, the boundary of the African American or "Harlem" section of Albany, after the demonstrators from the night march were arrested. Concerned with the size of the crowd, Pritchett reports that he led his men and Georgia state troopers (numbering between 160 and 180) into Harlem by rows, two men across, with one row of men on each side of the street. This was the first time police entered Harlem during a civil rights march. Pritchett and his men remained nonviolent, even after two men were injured by objects thrown from the crowd. An Albany officer hit with a bottle was able to stay on the job that evening; however, state trooper Claude Hill from the Tifton area lost two teeth when he was hit in the jaw with a rock. As a result of the violence, police arrested forty African Americans, including twenty-four juveniles and sixteen adults, one of whom was white. The arrested adults were sent to Newton, Baker County, and the juveniles were held in Albany. Pritchett commends the men under his direction for their nonviolent response and demeanor in the Harlem district. When asked to respond about a rumored outbreak of...
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Pritchett, Laurie, 1926-2000
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Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. African American Civil Rights Workers
  2. African American Students
  3. African Americans
  4. Albany
  5. Albany (Ga.)
  6. Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.)
  7. Arrest
  8. Civil Rights
  9. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  10. Georgia
  11. Government
  12. Harlem (Albany, Ga.)
  13. History
  14. Imprisonment
  15. Injunctions
  16. Interviews
  17. Jails
  18. Mobs
  19. Mt. Zion First Baptist Church (Albany, Ga.)
  20. Neighborhood
  21. Nonviolence
  22. Parades
  23. Police
  24. Police, State
  25. Politics And Government
  26. Press Conferences
  27. Press Coverage
  28. Protest Marches
  29. Race Relations
  30. Reporters And Reporting
  31. Restraining Orders
  32. Segregation
  33. Shiloh Baptist Church (Albany, Ga.)
  34. Violence

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