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[More than 60 demonstrators kneeling before city hall in support of the eleven "Freedom Riders" on trial, with policemen in background in Albany, Georgia]

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1961 December 13.
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  1. African Americans
  2. Albany
  3. Demonstrations
  4. Georgia
  5. Photographic Prints
  6. Political Activity
  7. Racism
  8. Transmitted Images

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