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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 ]
Shirley Sherrod (born November 20, 1947 [2]) is the Executive Director for the Southwest Georgia Project and Vice President of Development for New Communities at Cypress pond. [3] Sherrod is a civil rights activist who has devoted most of her life advocating for farmers and rural residents.
He then returned home to direct the Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education with Shirley Sherrod. In 1969, Sherrod, his wife Shirley, and other members of the Albany Movement helped pioneer the land trust movement in the U.S., [18] [19] co-founding New Communities, a collective farm in Southwest Georgia modeled on kibbutzim in Israel.
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 ...
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.
December 11–15 – Five hundred protesters arrested in Albany, Georgia. December 15 – King arrives in Albany, Georgia in response to a call from Dr. W. G. Anderson, the leader of the Albany Movement to desegregate public facilities. [12] December 16 – King is arrested at an Albany, Georgia demonstration.
First came the Germans and the Swedes. Then Russian Jews, a group that remained dominant through the 1960s. By the late 1980s, there were Koreans, Filipinos, Mexicans and Guatemalans. And Somalis ...
Nov. 21—ALBANY — A proposal for a possible housing development in a historic district near Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital could be a reversal of back to the future into forward to the past.