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Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at a mass meeting as well as a civil rights march and the arrest of marchers in Albany, Georgia, 1961 December

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Title

eng Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at a mass meeting as well as a civil rights march and the arrest of marchers in Albany, Georgia, 1961 December

Description

eng In this WSB newsfilm clip from Albany, Georgia, in December, 1961, police detain African American civil rights protesters in an alley; a march leaves Shiloh Baptist Church and is met downtown by Albany police chief Laurie Pritchett; and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks to a mass meeting at Shiloh Baptist Church and encourages listeners to continue their struggle against segregation., The clip begins with a group of African Americans gathered in an alley which is blocked by a car. Policemen are on one side of the car, and cameramen filming the incident are on the other. Several African American men carry an unconscious woman from the alley to the car where police help her inside. Some of the African Americans waiting in the alley examine a camera, comfort each other, and later kneel and pray. Next, images of a mass meeting in Shiloh Baptist Church are interspersed with scenes of a march leaving the church and continuing through the African American section of Albany. March leaders include King, Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy, Dr. William G. Anderson, president of the Albany Movement, and his wife, Norma Anderson. Chief Pritchett addresses the march participants with a bullhorn when they reach downtown. Other African Americans, raingear-clad police, and media representatives observe the march. On Saturday, December 16, 1961, after city officials refused to meet with local black leaders, more than 250 Albany residents joined King, Abernathy, and the Andersons, marched downtown, and were arrested. Finally, the audio portion of the clip begins with scenes of a standing-room-only mass meeting in Shiloh Baptist Church where the congregation sings "Pray on" in a call-and-response style, led by a man, possibly Reverend Benjamin Gay, chaplain of the Albany Movement. King also addresses the meeting, emphasizing that Albany needs to be informed that African Americans do not like segregation. He stresses that segregation is still the "Negro's burden and America's shame;" he notes that by pressing on with anti-segregation demonstrations, that activists could reach beyond Albany's African American community and prove the continuation of segregation to be too costly to the nation. Individuals identified on the dais in the clip include King; Dr. Anderson; Reverend Wyatt Walker, director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); Marion Page, executive secretary of the Albany Movement; and Ruby Hurley, lawyer for the NAACP. At the conclusion of King's speech, the audience sings, "Everybody Wants Freedom." King's speech was probably given December 15, after his arrival in Albany and before his arrest December 16., Title supplied by cataloger.

Bibliographic Citation

eng Cite as: wsbn44758, Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at a mass meeting as well as a civil rights march and the arrest of marchers in Albany, Georgia, 1961 December, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 1039, 46:39/54:23, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia

Contributor

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

eng Gay, Benjamin

Creator

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

Date

eng 1961-12-00

Extent

eng 1 clip (about 7 mins., 44 secs.): black-and-white, sound ; 16 mm.

Format

eng video/mp4

Identifier

number: wsbn44758

Is Referenced By

http://crdl.usg.edu/id:ugabma_wsbn_wsbn44758

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, Freedom Alley

Subject

eng Police--Georgia--Albany

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

eng African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Albany

eng Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--Albany

eng Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century

eng Civil rights workers--Georgia--Albany

eng Parades--Georgia--Albany

eng Protest marches--Georgia--Albany

eng Segregation--Georgia--Albany

eng Reporters and reporting--Georgia--Albany

eng Prayer--Georgia--Albany

eng Public worship--Georgia--Albany

eng Physicians--Georgia--Albany

eng African American physicians--Georgia--Albany

eng Passive resistance--Georgia--Albany

eng Direct action--Georgia--Albany

eng Everybody wants freedom (Song)

eng Singing--Georgia--Albany

eng Music--Georgia--Albany

eng African Americans--Songs and music

eng Protest songs--Georgia--Albany

eng Violence--Georgia--Albany

eng African American women--Georgia--Albany

eng Mass meetings--Georgia--Albany

eng Imprisonment--Georgia--Albany

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

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

eng Pritchett, Laurie, 1926-2000

eng Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990

eng Anderson, William G., 1927-

eng Anderson, Norma L. (Norma Lee)

eng Walker, Wyatt Tee

eng Page, Marion S., -1971

eng Hurley, Ruby

eng Gay, Benjamin

Temporal Coverage

eng 1961-12-00

Type

eng MovingImage

Item sets

Demo Item Set - Omeka!

Site pages

Albany Civil Rights Movement

Media

http://crdl.usg.edu/news/mp4/wsbn44758.mp4