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WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Dr. William G. Anderson, Albany Movement president, speaking about his experience jailed for a just cause and of Marion Page, Albany Movement executive secretary, speaking about results of negotiations with the city in a mass meeting held at Shiloh Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia, 1961 December 18

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In this WSB newsfilm clip from a mass meeting held at Shiloh Baptist Church on Monday, December 18, 1961, Dr. William G. Anderson, Albany Movement president, comments on his experience with being jailed for a just cause; and Marion Page, Albany Movement executive secretary, outlines the day's results of negotiations with city officials.On Friday, December 16, police arrested Anderson, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Reverend Ralph Abernathy, and over 250 demonstrators for marching without a parade permit. Abernathy was bailed out of jail on December 16 so that he could arrange outside support while King and Anderson remained in prison. Negotiations between Albany Movement activists and city officials began on Monday, December 18, and lasted all day; prominent Albany officials, such as mayor Asa D. Kelley and police chief Laurie Pritchett, were included in these discussions. On the table were demands to release jailed activists. Finally, the two groups agreed to release jailed demonstrators on bond and to appoint a biracial committee to further negotiate the demands of the Albany Movement on the condition that King and Abernathy leave the city and that demonstrations stop.In segments of the clip, Marion Page delivers negotiation results in a prepared public statement to reporters and to attendees of the mass meeting. Page explains that the city police agreed to comply with the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) ruling that desegregated bus and train stations, and to facilitate bond release for demonstrators. Page clarifies that the Albany Movement will not lead demonstrations or attempt further...

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Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. Abernathy, Ralph, 1926 1990
  2. African American Civil Rights Workers
  3. African American Physicians
  4. African American Prisoners
  5. African Americans
  6. Albany
  7. Albany (Ga.)
  8. Albany (Ga.). Board Of Commissioners
  9. Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.)
  10. Anderson, William G., 1927
  11. Bail
  12. Boycotts
  13. Civil Rights
  14. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  15. Civil Rights Movements
  16. Direct Action
  17. Georgia
  18. Government
  19. History
  20. Imprisonment
  21. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
  22. Mass Meetings
  23. Negotiation
  24. Passive Resistance
  25. Physicians
  26. Politics And Government
  27. Protest Marches
  28. Race Relations
  29. Segregation
  30. Segregation In Transportation
  31. Shiloh Baptist Church (Albany, Ga.)
  32. United States
  33. United States. Interstate Commerce Commission

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