The Civil Rights Movement in Albany, Georgia
Founded in 1961, the Albany Movement demands an end to all segregation. One of its leaders is Slater King, cousin of Martin Luther King.
By 1962, 1000 protesters have been jailed, including Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy, invited to town by the Albany Movement.
The Civil Rights Movement in Albany, Georgia
Civil rights activist and real estate broker Slater King with Bernice Johnson, one of the original SNCC Freedom Singers, who later formed the musical group Sweet Honey in the Rock.
C.B. King, brother ofSlater King, who is aCivil Rights Attorney,after being assaultedby local police.
Rebuilding Firebombed Churches in the South
Bob Swann, a supporterof the civil rights movementfrom the north comes torebuild southern churches.Many African AmericanChurches are destroyedby those opposing theidea of equal rights andtreatment for allAfrican Americans.
Bob SwannSlater King
What Comes Next in the South?
How does a “protest movement” become a “constructive movement”
Earlier Intersection of the Swann & King Families
Bob Swann’s wife, Marjorie Swann, had long been active in the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE).
Coretta Scott King & Martin Luther King
Coretta Scott Marjorie Swann
While living in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Marjorie Swann had become close friends with a young Antioch College student who was also active in CORE – Corretta Scott who later marries Martin Luther King
What Comes Next?
How do tenant farmers and sharecroppers feed and
house their families if they are forced off the land?
Fay BennettNational Sharecroppers
Fund
What Comes Next?How do we ensure that the rights we’ve won in Congress and the courts actually result in desegregated schools and housing?
Charles SherrodStudent Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee
Rev. Charles SherrodSouthwest Georgia
Project
Planning a Land Trust for the American South
1968 National Sharecroppers Fund provides a grant for eight people to travel to Israel to learn about land leasing from the Jewish National Fund.
Slater King Bob Swann
Faye BennettCharles Sherrod
The delegation is impressed by the moshav ovdim, agricultural communities on leased land, combining individual homesteads with cooperatively produced and marketed goods
Drafting the Blueprint for aNew Model of Land Tenure
NewCommunities
Inc.
Albany MovementSlater KingC.B. King
National Sharecroppers FundFay Bennett
Leonard SmithJames Mayes Southwest
Georgia ProjectCharles Sherrod
Institute for Community EconomicsBob Swann
Southern Regional Council
John LewisJames Wood
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Albert Turner
Southern Rural ProjectWilliam Peace
Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative AssociationLewis Black
Southern Cooperative Development Program/
Federation of Southern Cooperatives
Fr. Albert J. McKnightCharles Prejean
New Communities, Inc., 1969“A nonprofit organization to hold land in perpetual trust for the permanent use of rural communities.”