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| Creator: | WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.) |
| Title: | Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of civil rights movement leaders speaking to a mass meeting as well as other scenes typical of the Albany Movement in Albany, Georgia, 1962 |
| Date: | 1962 |
| Description: | In this WSB newsfilm clip, silent scenes show examples of Albany Movement programs in 1962 including marches, direct actions, mass meetings, and press conferences; sound scenes include crowds at a mass meeting singing and listening to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Albany attorney C. B. King, and Albany Movement president Dr. William G. Anderson. Other civil rights leaders in the clip are Ralph D. Abernathy, Charles Jones, and Andrew Young. During a night march, Albany police and state patrolmen surround demonstrators as they walk downtown. Albany police chief Laurie Pritchett speaks to the press from his office. C. B. King tells the crowd in Mt. Zion Baptist Church that movement leaders had submitted an appeal to the federal courts in which they complained about the mayor, city commission, and city manager, and asked that segregation be done away with in public facilities. Also in Mt. Zion, Anderson comments on the events of July 24, 1962, when chief federal appellate court judge Elbert P. Tuttle reversed the temporary restraining order against demonstration. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. expresses his disappointment of the injunction blocking demonstrations issued by federal district judge J. Robert Elliott and his gratitude for the reversal of that injunction by Judge Tuttle. He calls the audience to present their bodies as a significant witness by continuing to move and work for freedom and the crowd sings "Everybody Wants Freedom." Title supplied by cataloger. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for digital conversion and description of the WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection. |
| Types: | Moving images | News | Unedited footage |
| Subjects: | King, C. B. (Chevene Bowers), 1923-1988 | King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 | King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Trials, litigation, etc. | Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 | Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990--Trials, litigation, etc. | Jones, Charles, 1937- | Anderson, William G., 1927- | Pritchett, Laurie, 1926-2000 | Young, Andrew, 1932- | Tuttle, Elbert P. (Elbert Parr), 1897- | Elliott, J. Robert, 1910- | Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--Albany | Civil rights movements--Georgia--Albany | Police--Georgia--Albany | Segregation--Georgia--Albany | Everybody wants freedom (Song) | African Americans--Civil rights | Direct action--Georgia--Albany | Passive resistance--Georgia--Albany | Press conferences--Georgia--Albany | Negotiation--Georgia--Albany | Injunctions--Georgia--Albany | Restraining orders--Georgia--Albany | African Americans--Songs and music | Protest songs--Georgia--Albany | Discrimination in public accommodations--Georgia--Albany | Mass meetings--Georgia--Albany | Albany (Ga.)--Politics and government--History--20th century | Albany (Ga.)--Race relations--History--20th century | Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.) | Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.)--Trials, litigation, etc. | Albany (Ga.). Board of Commissioners | Mt. Zion Baptist Church (Albany, Ga.) | Albany (Ga.) | Dougherty County (Ga.) |
| Collection: | WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection |
| Institution: | Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection |
| Contributors: | King, C. B. (Chevene Bowers), 1923-1988 | Young, Andrew, 1932- | Anderson, William G., 1927- | King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 | Digital Library of Georgia | Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection | Civil Rights Digital Library Collection (Digital Library of Georgia) |
| Online Publisher: | Athens, Ga. : Digital Library of Georgia and Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia Libraries | 2007 |
| Original Material: | 1 clip (about 21 min.): black-and-white, sound ; 16 mm. Original found in the WSB-TV newsfilm collection. |
| Rights and Usage: | Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of civil rights movement leaders speaking to a mass meeting as well as other scenes typical of the Albany Movement in Albany, Georgia, 1962, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 0250, 23:58/44:45, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Ga, as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia. |
| Related Materials: | Forms part of: Civil Rights Digital Library. |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/crdl/id:ugabma_wsbn_39373 |
