PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Albany Movement aimed to end all forms of racial segregation in the city, focusing initially on desegregating travel facilities, forming a permanent biracial committee to discuss further desegregation, and the release of those jailed in segregation protests.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Albany Movement was a desegregation campaign formed on November 17, 1961, in Albany, Georgia.
Detailed explanation-3: -On that broad front, the Albany Movement used all the methods of nonviolence: direct action expressed through mass demonstrations; jail-ins; sit-ins; wade-ins, and kneel-ins; political action; boycotts and legal actions.
Detailed explanation-4: -[From Civil Rights Movement Archive page on the Albany Movement.] 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.