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The Albany Movement was a desegregation and voters' rights coalition formed in Albany, Georgia, in November 1961.This movement was founded by local black leaders and ministers, as well as members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). [1]
Albany Movement William G. Anderson D.O. (born December 12, 1927) is an American surgeon who was the first African-American to become a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) for twenty years where he also served as president.
The Albany Movement began in 1961 and was designed to eliminate segregation in the city of Albany by the use of non-violent protest. It started when three young members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee—Charles Sherrod, Cordell Reagon, and Charles Jones—came to Albany for a voter-registration drive.
Feb. 21—MACON — Dr. William D. Anderson, the president of the Albany Movement, a coalition of activists including Martin Luther King Jr. and the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy that worked to end ...
Charles Melvin Sherrod [1] (January 2, 1937 – October 11, 2022) was an American minister and civil rights activist. [2] [3] [4] During the civil rights movement, Sherrod helped found the Albany Movement while serving as field secretary for southwest Georgia for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Though the Albany effort proved a key lesson in tactics for King and the national civil rights movement, [137] the national media was highly critical of King's role in the defeat, and the SCLC's lack of results contributed to a growing gulf between the organization and the more radical SNCC. After Albany, King sought to choose engagements for ...
Reagon was 16 years of age in 1959 when he emerged as a leader of the civil rights movement in Albany, Georgia. James Forman, who became the executive secretary of SNCC, called him "the baby of the movement". Reagon, who was arrested more than thirty times in the South for his anti-segregation activities, conducted nonviolent training workshops ...
The civil rights movement (1896–1954) was a long, primarily nonviolent series of events to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. The era has had a lasting impact on American society – in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights, and its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism .