PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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SNCC had worked out a peaceful resolution to the segregation problem (in the area) with local white politicians, thus ending the sit-ins and protests before all the tension and violence even started
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The SCLC had worked out a peaceful resolution to the segregation problem (in the area) with local white politicians, thus ending the sit-ins and protests before all the tension and violence even started
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It was hard to convince many African Americans living in and around Albany, GA, to get involved-many/most were worried about getting arrested and going to jail
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The movement was disorganized-it really didn’t have any leadership within its core base
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Detailed explanation-1: -Many leaders of the national Civil Rights Movement and the media considered the Albany Movement a failure because it did not achieve many concessions from the local government.
Detailed explanation-2: -King later said about the setbacks of the Albany Movement: The mistake I made there was to protest against segregation generally rather than against a single and distinct facet of it. Our protest was so vague that we got nothing, and the people were left very depressed and in despair.
Detailed explanation-3: -The newly formed Albany Movement organization harnessed the energy of students, whose sit-in arrests at segregated bus stations rallied Black adults to the cause.
Detailed explanation-4: -It was the first mass movement in the modern civil rights era to have as its goal the desegregation of an entire community, and it resulted in the jailing of more than 1, 000 African Americans in Albany and surrounding rural counties.