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Photograph of civil rights activist and real estate broker Slater King, who was one of the leaders of the Albany Movement. To the left is Bernice Johnson, one of the original Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Freedom Singers, who later formed the musical group Sweet Honey in the Rock.According to traditional accounts 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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Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- African American Civil Rights Workers
- African American Men
- African American Musicians
- African American Real Estate Agents
- African American Singers
- African American Women
- African American Women Civil Rights Workers
- African American Women Musicians
- African American Women Singers
- African Americans
- Albany
- Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.)
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Workers
- Georgia
- King, Slater, 1927 1969
- Men
- Musicians
- Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942
- Real Estate Agents
- Singers
- Women
- Women Civil Rights Workers
- Women Musicians
- Women Singers
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