Albany, Georgia
In the early sixties, Albany was a city of 60,000 (40 percent of whom were African American) and the commercial center in Southwest Georgia. W.E.B. DuBois described it as “a great fertile land, luxuriant with forests … hot with the sun and damp with rich black swampland, and here was where the cornerstone of the Cotton Kingdom was laid.” SNCC arrived in Albany in 1961 to find the local Movement already percolating. Various organizations quickly came together to form the Albany Movement and launched a series of demonstrations that shook the city to its core.
People
- Annette Jones
- Bernice Johnson (Reagon)
- Bertha Gober
- Charles Jones
- Charles Sherrod
- Christian Family
- Cordell Reagon
- Faith Holsaert
- Harris Family
- Jack Chatfield
- Janie Culbreth
- King Family
- Larry Rubin
- Martha Prescod (Norman)
- Peggy Dammond
- Penny Patch
- Prathia Hall
- Ralph Allen
- Randy Battle
- Rev. Samuel Wells
- William Porter
- Willie McCray
- Rutha Mae Harris
