EOTO: Albany Movement

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 Albany Movement

Albany Movement - New Georgia Encyclopedia. https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/albany-movement/.

The Albany movement was one of the biggest anti segregation protest, formed on November 17, 1961 by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,  protesters challenged all forms of segregation and racial discrimination. SNCC traveled to Albany, Georgia to protest against segregation in heavily populated black communities in hope to gain attraction and support from the masses. Following the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, the Albany Movement focused on desegregating travel facilities and hoped to free anyone who was put in jail for other segregation protest. They practiced various nonviolent protest such as  sit-ins, jail-ins, boycotts, and litigation.

“Albany Movement.” The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute, 5 Apr. 2018, https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/albany-movement.

Albanys police chief Laurie Pritchett tried to mitigate all these protest by arresting as many protesters as possible, trying to refrain from police brutality to minimize any bad media publicity. By December 1961, over 500 protesters were put in jail. After hearing the news, Martin Luther King Jr. went to Albany on December 15 and spoke at the Shiloh Baptist Church. The following day, King would join those who were jailed, many on accounts of parading without a permit and obstructing the sidewalk. With Kings involvement,  the movement became the nation's biggest media story, inspiring other members of black communities to join in the protest.  With City officials under fire, they agreed that if King left Albany then the city would comply with the ICC ruling, and release all jailed protesters. This promise however, was never kept as when King left, the police kept making arrest and protest would only multiply.


On July 10, 1962, The Albany police chief would proceed to charge King and Abernathy with parading without a permit for the second time, and ordered them to either pay the $178 fine or serve forty-five days in jail. Just two days later, Chief Pritchett would notify King and Abernathy that their bail has been paid by an unknown black man. On July 27, 1962, King would end up getting arrested for the third time, being released on the promise to leave Albany.

King saw the Albany Movement as a failure, but African Americans from Albany would say otherwise. The SNCC field secretary Charles Sherrod went on to say “Now I can’t help how Dr. King might have felt, . . . but as far as we were concerned, things moved on. We didn’t skip one beat.” After the Albany movement, black voter registration nearly doubled. After Kings departure from Albany, the city would continue to go through several more stages of civil rights movements. Once the black community from Albany challenged the segregation laws, they started to see progress with some laws being overturned. What the people from Albany did to protect their rights and fight for African American rights not only showed progress in their area, but started inspiring movements from nearby cities. The SNCC workers would then go on to lead protest in their neighboring towns to try and inspire more black communities to protest and teach others good practices for peaceful protesting 


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