The Civil Rights Movement in Albany, Georgia

Founded in 1961, the Albany Movement demands an end to all segregation. One of its leaders is Slater King, cousin of Martin Luther King.

By 1962, 1000 protesters have been jailed, including Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy, invited to town by the Albany Movement.

The Civil Rights Movement in Albany, Georgia

Civil rights activist and real estate broker Slater King with Bernice Johnson, one of the original SNCC Freedom Singers, who later formed the musical group Sweet Honey in the Rock.

C.B. King, brother ofSlater King, who is aCivil Rights Attorney,after being assaultedby local police.

Rebuilding Firebombed Churches in the South

Bob Swann, a supporterof the civil rights movementfrom the north comes torebuild southern churches.Many African AmericanChurches are destroyedby those opposing theidea of equal rights andtreatment for allAfrican Americans.

Bob SwannSlater King

What Comes Next in the South?

How does a “protest movement” become a “constructive movement”

Earlier Intersection of the Swann & King Families

Bob Swann’s wife, Marjorie Swann, had long been active in the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE).

Coretta Scott King & Martin Luther King

Coretta Scott Marjorie Swann While living in Yellow

Springs, Ohio, Marjorie Swann had become close friends with a young Antioch College student who was also active in CORE – Corretta Scott who later marries Martin Luther King

What Comes Next?

How do tenant farmers and sharecroppers feed and

house their families if they are forced off the land?

Fay BennettNational Sharecroppers

Fund

What Comes Next?How do we ensure that the rights we’ve won in Congress and the courts actually result in desegregated schools and housing?

Charles SherrodStudent Nonviolent

Coordinating Committee

Rev. Charles SherrodSouthwest Georgia

Project

Planning a Land Trust for the American South

1968 National Sharecroppers Fund provides a grant for eight people to travel to Israel to learn about land leasing from the Jewish National Fund.

Slater King Bob Swann

Faye BennettCharles Sherrod

The delegation is impressed by the moshav ovdim, agricultural communities on leased land, combining individual homesteads with cooperatively produced and marketed goods

Drafting the Blueprint for aNew Model of Land Tenure

NewCommunities

Inc.

Albany MovementSlater KingC.B. King

National Sharecroppers FundFay Bennett

Leonard SmithJames Mayes Southwest

Georgia ProjectCharles Sherrod

Institute for Community EconomicsBob Swann

Southern Regional Council

John LewisJames Wood

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Albert Turner

Southern Rural ProjectWilliam Peace

Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative AssociationLewis Black

Southern Cooperative Development Program/

Federation of Southern Cooperatives

Fr. Albert J. McKnightCharles Prejean

New Communities, Inc., 1969“A nonprofit organization to hold land in perpetual trust for the permanent use of rural communities.”