- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- William G. Anderson
- Creator:
- WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Date of Original:
- 1962-07-31
- Subject:
- Civil rights--Georgia--Albany
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Albany
Civil rights movements--Georgia--Albany
Albany (Ga.)--Race relations--History--20th century
African American men--Georgia--Albany
Men--Georgia--Albany
Civil rights workers--Georgia--Albany
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Albany
African American physicians--Georgia--Albany
Physicians--Georgia--Albany
Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.) - People:
- Anderson, William G., 1927-
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Albany, 31.57851, -84.15574
- Medium:
- news
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Physician William Anderson, the president of the Albany Movement, is pictured in July 1962.
Image of physician William G. Anderson, the president of the Albany Movement, pictured here appearing on the television program Meet the Press on July 1962. Anderson first received national attention as a civil rights leader. Thereafter, he distinguished himself as an osteopathic physician, surgeon, educator, and hospital administrator.
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. Martin Luther King Jr. was drawn into the movement in December 1961 when hundreds of black protesters, including himself, were arrested in one week, but eight months later King left Albany admitting that he had failed to accomplish the movement's goals. When told as a chapter in the history of the national civil rights movement, Albany was important because of King's involvement and because of the lessons he learned that he would soon apply in Birmingham, Alabama. Out of Albany's failure, then, came Birmingham's success. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/william-g-anderson-b-1927/m-10858/
- Digital Object URL:
- https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005691901/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: WSB-TV newsfilm clip with Dr. William G. Anderson, Albany Movement president, discussing the relationship between the Albany City Commission and local citizens in Albany, Georgia, 1962 August 4, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 0724, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Award Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Ga.
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/william-g-anderson-b-1927
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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