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Albany Movement Launched in Georgia

A coalition of SNCC, NAACP, and local organizations formed the Albany Movement in Albany, Georgia to challenge all forms of segregation. Led locally by William G. Anderson, the campaign saw over 500 arrests by December 1961. MLK joined in December but Albany's Police Chief Laurie Pritchett used nonviolent arrests to blunt momentum.

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  1. November 17, 1961
    Albany Movement Launched in Georgia

    A coalition of SNCC, NAACP, and local organizations formed the Albany Movement in Albany, Georgia to challenge all forms of segregation. Led locally by William G. Anderson, the campaign saw over 500 arrests by December 1961. MLK joined in December but Albany's Police Chief Laurie Pritchett used nonviolent arrests to blunt momentum.

  2. November 17, 1961
    The Albany Movement

    The first campaign to desegregate an entire city; over a thousand are jailed, and the movement learns hard lessons it later applies in Birmingham.