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Photograph of Albany, Georgia residents Thomas Chatmon, Marion King, an unidentified voter, and Slater King participating in voter registration. The office worker, a white woman, stands behind the counter and seems to be protesting their registration.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 Children
- African American Civil Rights Workers
- African American Men
- African American Women
- African American Women Civil Rights Workers
- African Americans
- Albany
- Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.)
- Businessmen
- Businesspeople
- Chatmon, Thomas C., 1919 2003
- Children
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Workers
- Discrimination
- Georgia
- King, Marion, 1932 2007
- King, Slater, 1927 1969
- Men
- Race Discrimination
- Racism
- Social Conditions
- Voter Registration
- Women