ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - It was a picture seen worldwide. A picture of a girl being hauled off the steps of what was known as the Carnegie Library during an Albany Movement protest. That girl was ...

The news media and even parts of the civil rights movement wrote off Albany as a ... when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Albany, Ga. It was the winter of 1961, not the spring of ...

“Nothing stopped us in Albany, Georgia. We showed the world.” Charles Sherrod wasn’t a big name, but his life has a lot to tell us about the civil rights movement Charles Melvin Sherrod was ...

ALBANY, Georgia (Albany ... of a 12-year-old civil rights “foot soldier.” Albany native Gwendolyn Crawford, now 74, became an iconic image of the 1961-62 Albany Movement after she and others ...

NEW YORK-- Civil rights leaders held ... CBS2 there has been some movement in the Legislature and there may be an opening for a compromise. But since this is Albany, there's no done deal until ...

She sent him to southwest Georgia, a place W.E.B. Du Bois ... In traditional accounts of the civil rights movement, Albany is depicted as a failure, a place where the Rev. Martin Luther King ...