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Photograph of Albany Movement leaders included, from left, Slater King, the president of the movement; Elza Goldie Jackson, the recording secretary; the Reverend Sammie B. Wells, the chairman of voter registration; Thomas Chatmon, the director of voter registration; and Robert Thomas, a local barber and active volunteer.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 Businesspeople
- African American Civil Rights Workers
- African American Clergy
- African American Men
- African American Women
- African American Women Civil Rights Workers
- African Americans
- Albany
- Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.)
- Baptists
- Businessmen
- Businesspeople
- Chatmon, Thomas C., 1919 2003
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Workers
- Clergy
- Discrimination
- Georgia
- Jackson, Elza Goldie
- King, Slater, 1927 1969
- Men
- Race Discrimination
- Racism
- Social Conditions
- Thomas, Robert, Social Activist
- Wells, Samuel B., 1916 2005
- Women
- Women Civil Rights Workers
