Ms. Rutha Mae Harris & the Albany Civil Rights Institute
The Freedom Singers emerged from Albany, Georgia, in 1962 with a goal of educating communities through song about civil rights. By 1963 they were performing at the March on Washington and the Newport Folk Festival.
Today, you can still hear these powerful songs at the Albany Civil Rights Institute at 1 p.m. on the second Saturday of each month.
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MCLB Albany Marines visit the Civil Rights Institute
Over 50 Marines and base officials from Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany visited the Albany Civil Rights Institute in honor of Black History Month Friday morning. The FOX 31 Newscast is Albany, Georgia's only 10PM local newscast. For more local stories around Southwest Georgia, visit mysouthwestga.com.
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Albany Civil Rights Institute Freedom Singers at the banquet in Americus, Ga.
Albany Civil Rights Institute Freedom Singers were a wonderful addition to the banquet of the Americus-Sumter County Movement Remembered Committee, Inc. President Jimmy Carter was in attendance, as was artist, Winfred Rembert, shown on left.
Was the Albany Movement a Successful Civil Rights Demonstration?
Civil Rights activists in Albany, Georgia, used a bold strategy to try to end segregation as they sought to desegregate all institutions at once. But did it work?
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Civil Rights Institute granted celebration funds
The Albany Civil Rights Institute received a large donation Thursday to help keep the center going.The FOX 31 Newscast is Albany, Georgia's only 10PM local newscast. For more local stories around Southwest Georgia, visit mysouthwestga.com.
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Charles Sherrod Civil Rights Park-Albany, GA
Charles Sherrod Civil Rights Park-Albany, GA
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Hampton Inn & Suites Albany at Albany Mall - Albany Hotels, Georgia
Hampton Inn & Suites Albany at Albany Mall 3 Stars Hotel in lbany, Georgia Within US Travel Directory Located opposite the Albany Mall, this Hampton Inn and Suites is just 6.
4 km from the city centre.
Guests will enjoy a daily continental breakfast and access to an outdoor pool during their stay.
Free Wi-Fi is available in all rooms of this Albany hotel along with a flat-screen cable TV.
A work desk is also included and a hairdryer is provided in all of the bathrooms.
A fitness centre is on site at the Hampton Inn and Suites at Albany Mall.
A coin-operated launderette is also available as well as a small snack shop for added convenience.
Albany Hampton Inn and Suites at Albany Mall is just 8 km from the Albany Civil Rights Museum.
The Albany Museum of Art is less than 10 minutes’ drive away.
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Albany Civil Rights Movement celebrates 50 years
The Albany Civil Rights Movement reflects on it's 50th anniversary.
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Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta, Georgia
Racist White Shoppers
In this WALB newsfilm clip probably from 1964, WALB reporter Jim Knight questions white residents from Albany, Georgia, near a grocery store and later in front of Midtown Drugs about their reaction to a proposed civil rights bill. The clip begins with Mrs. J. D. Miles, who expresses her disbelief at the bill and declares to stand up for her rights; she feels that African Americans already possess the same freedoms to work and build their neighborhoods as white people. Next, Knight stops two women and a girl; one of the women expresses her concerns about possible violence and her preference that demonstrations remain peaceful. Another unidentified woman interviewed by Knight hopes there will not be any trouble, and adds, of course, being a Southerner, I'm not for it at all. A woman who does not have time to be interviewed interjects that she thinks African Americans already have equal rights. A man and a woman walking together decline to comment when they are stopped, as does an older gentleman, who says What I have to say wouldn't be fit to go on the air. Another man and woman enter the store with a boy and a girl; they feel the bill should be voted upon as part of a national election, rather than forcing an unwanted decision upon the nation to accept. Finally, the last woman interviewed attests that she, too, is against the proposed legislation, and admits her concern about living in a neighborhood with African Americans.
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Mission MCLB Final Wrap
FOX 31 takes you inside the Marine Corps Logistics Base for a closer view of what the military does in and around Albany, Georgia.
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ASU to teach youth about Albany Civil Rights Movement
Professors at Albany State University say local youth do not know enough about the Albany Movement; they hope to repair this through a summer bridge program. The FOX 31 Newscast is Albany, Georgia's only 10PM local newscast. For more local Albany, Georgia stories, visit
New Leader Takes Charge of MCLB Albany
Lt. Col. James C. Carroll III takes charge of Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany, Georgia, from Col. Don Davis during a change of command ceremony held on Schmid Field here, May 28, 2015.
Civil Rights Act celebrates 50 years of fighting discrimination
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act on this day 50 years ago. Meant to eliminate the vast vestiges of injustice, the law bans hiring, firing and payment based on sex, race, religion, color or national origin. RT's Manila Chan takes a look back at this landmark in American history.
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President John F. Kennedy on Negro Civil Rights in Albany, Georgia, August 1, 1962
''I have been in constant touch with the Attorney General and have received more or less daily reports, and he has been in daily touch with the authorities in Albany in an attempt to provide a solution. What is involved here is partly local laws and partly those laws which involve the national government particularly as they might involve public facilities, and some of these matters are in the court.
Let me say that I find it wholly inexplicable why the City Council of Albany will not sit down with the citizens of Albany, who may be Negroes, and attempt to secure theme in a peaceful way, their rights. The United States Government is involved in sitting down at Geneva with the Soviet Union. I can't understand why the government of Albany, City Council of Albany, cannot do the same for American citizens.
We are going to attempt, as we have in the past, to try to provide a satisfactory solution for the protection of the constitutional rights of the people of Albany, and we will continue to do so. The situation today is completely unsatisfactory from that point of view.''
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Martin Luther King's widow lies in honour for public viewing
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Atlanta, Georgia - 6 February 2006
1. Pullout from sign outside Ebenezer Church to crowds waiting
2. Pan of mourners lined up outside church
3. Tracking shot of mourners standing with umbrellas
4. Mourners entering church
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5. Crowds filing past body of Coretta Scott King
6. Flowers
7. Television show host Oprah Winfrey paying respects
8. Close-up of Winfrey at casket
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9. More mourners walking into church
10. Man holding pamphlet for what he says was the memorial ceremony of Martin Luther King, Jr.
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Reginald Millines, mourner:
It's a sense of sadness but joy to know that Sister King is gone - she's gone to be with Martin and hopefully a big reunion is taking place in heaven at this time.
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barbara Richardson, just viewed casket:
It was very emotional, she is a very beautiful person. Just reminded me of how we need to keep making a difference and that is just inspiring.
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Reverend Kevin Taylor, from Los Angeles, California:
We appreciate that legacy, what they stood for and are standing for and that legacy continues even today and so that is what we want to be about and that is why we are here to pay our respects to the King family.
14. Wide exterior of church with lines of people
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Hundreds of mourners joined family members and celebrities at Ebenezer Baptist Church on Monday to pay their respects to the first lady of the civil rights movement, Coretta Scott King.
Long queues of people around the church's historic sanctuary, waited for hours in freezing rain to pay their respects.
King's children attended the viewing, as did TV talk-show host Oprah Winfrey.
King, who died January 30 at age 78, was lying in honour at the church where her husband, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., shared his dream from the pulpit in the 1960s.
Inside the silent sanctuary, mourners filed slowly past the casket, some lingering a moment before moving on.
A shroud of flowers blanketed the lower half of the casket, and wreaths stood on either side, decorated with roses, King's favourite flower.
During the weekend, some 42-thousand mourners had walked past King's open casket at the state Capitol, where she became the first woman and the first black person to lie in honour there.
It was a striking contrast to the official snub her slain husband had been given by then-Governor Lester Maddox, an outspoken segregationist.
Mourners from as far away as California stood in line for up to two hours for the viewing, with many saying King was a continuing inspiration even in her passing.
It was very emotional, she is a very beautiful person. Just reminded me of how we need to keep making a difference and that is just inspiring, said Barbara Richardson.
President Bush and former President Clinton lead the list of dignitaries expected to attend her funeral on Tuesday, to be held at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, in Lithonia, where the Kings' youngest child, Bernice, is a minister.
Civil rights leaders also planned to commemorate King during a service later on Monday which was expected to include the Reverend Jesse Jackson, the Reverend Al Sharpton, Rep. John Lewis, former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young and the Reverend Joseph Lowery.
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albany movement 1961-2016 part 3
A crowd of around 200 came to Shiloh to re-enact the marches that were a vital part of the Albany Civil Rights Movement, marches that started at the historic church and wound their way to the seats of power in downtown Albany, often ending with participants in jail. And the crowd came to pay tribute to the man who would become a martyr to the cause of civil rights in America.
“It’s time to straighten up your back,” Henry Mathis, who organized and narrated the march re-enactment, said as he read a King quote from a monument in Charles Sherrod Park. “The time has come for us to hold the leadership of our community accountable.” Original Freedom Singer Rutha Harris led participants in a pre-walk song at Shiloh, then took up the familiar “Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me around” refrain from one of the movement’s most memorable songs as marchers walked three-abreast from Shiloh to Sherrod Park to the Oglethorpe Boulevard bus station to the site of the former downtown Albany jail.
The Art Park in Albany, Georgia
A quick video pan of the public Art Park in Albany, Georgia... a great open public urban space to create!