Albany, Georgia's Courthouses

Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of a civil rights march and resulting arrest; civil rights preachers and local officials speaking at mass meetings; groups of Albany city officials as well as civil rights leaders entering the federal courthouse; and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy at a press conference in Albany, Georgia, 1962 July

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Title

eng Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of a civil rights march and resulting arrest; civil rights preachers and local officials speaking at mass meetings; groups of Albany city officials as well as civil rights leaders entering the federal courthouse; and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy at a press conference in Albany, Georgia, 1962 July

Description

eng In this series of mostly silent WSB newsfilm clips from July 1962, demonstrators leave Shiloh Baptist Church, march through Albany's Harlem neighborhood, and are arrested when they reach downtown; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. William G. Anderson, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, and Albany police chief Laurie Pritchett speak at mass meetings at Mt. Zion and Shiloh Baptist Churches; and King and Abernathy speak at a press conference after their July 12 release from jail., The clip is divided into two segments. The first segment, which lasts about nine minutes, begins with silent images of mass meetings at Shiloh Baptist Church led by Wyatt Walker, then the executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), interspersed with footage of a march through Harlem led by Albany minister Reverend Robert Alford and SCLC minister Reverend C. K. Steele of Florida. Andrew Young is among the marchers. Some of the demonstrators wear black armbands to protest King's and Abernathy's July 10th conviction for "parading without a permit." The protesters are flanked by Albany police as they march through downtown and are eventually arrested. They are led into Freedom Alley, where they sing while they wait., The series of images from the march is followed by silent footage of King speaking at a mass meeting at Shiloh Baptist Church. During the meeting, the Freedom Singers sing. King's remarks are followed by speeches by Dr. William G. Anderson and Rev. Ralph Abernathy. Slater King and an unidentified African American man briefly converse with police chief Laurie Pritchett before he addresses the congregation about the rock-throwing incident the previous evening, July 10. Pritchett's remarks are followed by an additional silent segment of King speaking. Among the men seated or standing on the dais are Charles Jones and Dr. William Anderson., Next, at a July 12 press conference in Shiloh Baptist Church, King and Abernathy pledge to stay in Albany until charges are dropped against all who were arrested in December for civil rights protests. King expresses his frustration at his early release from jail. He states that he does not "appreciate the subtle and conniving tactics used to get us [King and Abernathy] out of jail." On July 10, Albany Judge A. N. Durden had ordered King and Abernathy to spend forty-five days in prison or pay a $178 fine for parading without a permit on December 16, 1961; both chose to go to jail rather than pay the fine. King and Abernathy were released from prison July 12 when their fine was reportedly paid by an unidentified stranger. Wyatt Walker is seen sitting behind the two men. More scenes of the march in Albany and of Freedom Alley follow., The second segment of the clip, which is about eight minutes long, returns to the press conference at Shiloh Baptist Church where King and Abernathy are again seen expressing their frustration at their early release from prison. There are also more scenes from the mass meeting where Slater King and Albany police chief Laurie Pritchett speak to the audience., Title supplied by cataloger., Optical sound., IMLS Grant, 2008., Digibeta Center Cut (4 x 3) downconvert from HDD5 1080/23.98PsF film transfer., Condition notes: 2009-03-01, Leader Replaced (Yancey)

Bibliographic Citation

eng Cite as: wsbn44816, Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of a civil rights march and resulting arrest; civil rights preachers and local officials speaking at mass meetings; groups of Albany city officials as well as civil rights leaders entering the federal courthouse; and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy at a press conference in Albany, Georgia, 1962 July, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 1046, 16:57/25:57, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia

Contributor

eng Pritchett, Laurie, 1926-2000

eng Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990

eng King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

Creator

eng WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)

Date

eng 7/1/1962

Extent

eng 1 clip (about 9 mins.): black-and-white, sound ; 16 mm., 1 clip (about 7 mins., 55 secs.): black-and-white, sound ; 16 mm.

Format

eng video/mp4

Identifier

number: wsbn44816

Is Referenced By

http://crdl.usg.edu/id:ugabma_wsbn_wsbn44816

Language

eng eng

Relation

eng Original found in the WSB-TV newsfilm collection.

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Source

eng Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

Spatial Coverage

eng United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Albany, 31.57851, -84.15574, United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Albany, Harlem, 31.574056, -84.15393, United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Albany, Freedom Alley

Subject

eng African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Albany

eng Civil rights workers--Georgia--Albany

eng African American students--Georgia--Albany

eng Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--Albany

eng Direct action--Georgia--Albany

eng Passive resistance--Georgia--Albany

eng Police--Georgia--Albany

eng Press conferences--Georgia--Albany

eng Segregation--Georgia--Albany

eng Neighborhoods--Georgia--Albany

eng African American prisoners--Georgia--Albany

eng African Americans--Songs and music

eng Nonviolence--Georgia--Albany

eng Violence--Georgia--Albany

eng African American physicians--Georgia--Albany

eng Physicians--Georgia--Albany

eng Mass meetings--Georgia--Albany

eng African American clergy--Georgia--Albany

eng Courthouses--Georgia--Albany

eng African American lawyers--Georgia--Albany

eng Lawyers--Georgia--Albany

eng Police brutality--Georgia--Dougherty County

eng Arrest--Georgia--Albany

eng Police chiefs--Georgia--Albany

eng Protest marches--Georgia--Albany

eng Central business districts--Georgia--Albany

eng Albany (Ga.)--Race relations--History--20th century

eng Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990

eng Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990--Imprisonment

eng Anderson, William G., 1927-

eng King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

eng King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Imprisonment

eng Pritchett, Laurie, 1926-2000

eng Walker, Wyatt Tee

eng King, Slater, 1927-1969

eng Jones, Charles, 1937-

eng Durden, A. N. (Adie Norman), 1898-1979

eng Alford, Robert

eng Steele, C. K. (Charles Kenzie), 1914-1980

eng Young, Andrew, 1932-

Temporal Coverage

eng 7/1/1962

Type

eng MovingImage

Item sets

Demo Item Set - Omeka!

Site pages

Albany Civil Rights Movement

Media

http://crdl.usg.edu/news/mp4/wsbn44816-1.mp4