United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Albany, 31.57851, -84.155741961/1962The Albany Movement leaders included, from left, Slater King, the president of the movement; Elza Goldie Jackson, the recording secretary; the Reverend Sammie B. Wells, the chairman of voter registration; Thomas Chatmon, the director of voter registration; and Robert Thomas, a local barber and active volunteer.Photograph of Albany Movement leaders included, from left, Slater King, the president of the movement; Elza Goldie Jackson, the recording secretary; the Reverend Sammie B. Wells, the chairman of voter registration; Thomas Chatmon, the director of voter registration; and Robert Thomas, a local barber and active volunteer.According to traditional accounts 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.image/jpegFreedomways: A Newsletter of the Prison and Jail Project. Americus, GA: Koinonia Partners, Prison and Jail Project, 1995-.http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/albany-movementForms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/albany-movementForms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaCivil rights workers--Georgia--AlbanyWomen civil rights workers--Georgia--AlbanyAfrican American women civil rights workers--Georgia--AlbanyAfrican American civil rights workers--Georgia--AlbanyAfrican American businesspeople--Georgia--AlbanyBusinesspeople--Georgia--AlbanyBusinessmen--Georgia--AlbanyAfrican American men--Georgia--AlbanyAfrican American women--Georgia--AlbanyMen--Georgia--AlbanyWomen--Georgia--AlbanyCivil rights--Georgia--AlbanyAfrican Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--AlbanyAfrican American clergy--Georgia--AlbanyClergy--Georgia--AlbanyBaptists--ClergyRacism--Georgia--AlbanyAfrican Americans--Race discriminationAfrican Americans--Social conditionsAlbany Movement (Albany, Ga.)Albany Movement LeadersStillImage