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ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - The Albany Civil Rights Institute ... the extraordinary people things which created the Albany Civil Rights Movement,” a flyer from the City of Albany said.
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 ...
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 ...
An Albany historian, Clennon King, is pushing for the Carnegie Library to change its name to honor Civil Rights activist ... about the Albany Movement, Albany, Georgia. And so, we need to start ...
Charles Melvin Sherrod died on Tuesday at the age of 85 in Albany ... from southwest Georgia, his name might not be familiar. But Charles Sherrod is the most important civil rights figure you ...
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