PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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Many white supremacists killed over 40 freedom riders in south Georgia.
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All of the public schools in southwest Georgia were integrated
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The city remained segregated but civil rights leaders learned valuable lessons.
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Albany became the most important city of change during the Civil Rights Movement.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Albany Movement began in fall 1961 and ended in summer 1962. 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.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Albany Movement intended to end all forms of racial segregation in the city, but it initially focused on desegregating travel facilities. It also formed a biracial committee to discuss further desegregation and called for the release of those jailed in earlier segregation protests.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Albany in southwestern Georgia was a key location of civil rights efforts in the region. In November 1961, local activists from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the NAACP and other organizations formed the Albany Movement, a desegregation campaign.