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Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of civil rights movement leaders speaking to a mass meeting as well as other scenes typical of the Albany Movement in Albany, Georgia, 1962

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WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)

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In this WSB newsfilm clip, silent scenes show examples of Albany Movement programs in 1962 including marches, direct actions, mass meetings, and press conferences; sound scenes include crowds at a mass meeting singing and listening to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Albany attorney C. B. King, and Albany Movement president Dr. William G. Anderson. Other civil rights leaders in the clip are Ralph D. Abernathy, Charles Jones, and Andrew Young. During a night march, Albany police and state patrolmen surround demonstrators as they walk downtown. Albany police chief Laurie Pritchett speaks to the press from his office. C. B. King tells the crowd in Mt. Zion Baptist Church that movement leaders had submitted an appeal to the federal courts in which they complained about the mayor, city commission, and city manager, and asked that segregation be done away with in public facilities. Also in Mt. Zion, Anderson comments on the events of July 24, 1962, when chief federal appellate court judge Elbert P. Tuttle reversed the temporary restraining order against demonstration. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. expresses his disappointment of the injunction blocking demonstrations issued by federal district judge J. Robert Elliott and his gratitude for the reversal of that injunction by Judge Tuttle. He calls the audience to present their bodies as a significant witness by continuing to move and work for freedom and the crowd sings "Everybody Wants Freedom."Title supplied by cataloger.The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the...

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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 Americans
  3. Albany
  4. Albany (Ga.)
  5. Albany (Ga.). Board Of Commissioners
  6. Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.)
  7. Civil Rights
  8. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  9. Civil Rights Movements
  10. Direct Action
  11. Discrimination
  12. Discrimination In Public Accommodations
  13. Everybody Wants Freedom (Song)
  14. Georgia
  15. Government
  16. History
  17. Injunctions
  18. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
  19. Mass Meetings
  20. Mt. Zion Baptist Church (Albany, Ga.)
  21. Negotiation
  22. Passive Resistance
  23. Police
  24. Politics And Government
  25. Press Conferences
  26. Protest Songs
  27. Race Relations
  28. Restraining Orders
  29. Segregation
  30. Songs And Music
  31. Trials, Litigation, Etc

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