United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Albany, 31.57851, -84.15574WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)1962-07-31Physician 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.image/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/william-g-anderson-b-1927Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/william-g-anderson-b-1927Forms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaCivil rights--Georgia--AlbanyAfrican Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--AlbanyCivil rights movements--Georgia--AlbanyAlbany (Ga.)--Race relations--History--20th centuryAfrican American men--Georgia--AlbanyMen--Georgia--AlbanyCivil rights workers--Georgia--AlbanyAfrican American civil rights workers--Georgia--AlbanyAfrican American physicians--Georgia--AlbanyPhysicians--Georgia--AlbanyAlbany Movement (Albany, Ga.)William G. AndersonStillImage