United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Albany, 31.57851, -84.15574Ralph Daniel2016-10-27The Albany Civil Rights Movement Museum opened in the Old Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Albany in 1998. The first mass meeting of the Albany Movement was held at the church in 1961, and in the 1990s the church building was converted into the museum. Known today as the Albany Civil Rights Institute, the museum moved to a new facility next to the church in 2008.Photograph of the Freedom Singers in front of the Old Mt. Zion Baptist Church, the location of the Albany Civil Rights Movement Museum in Albany, Georgia. It is a brick church with two low spires rising from the front. The former church was renovated in the 1990s, and the museum opened in 1998. The first mass meeting of the Albany Movement was held at the church in 1961.The Albany Movement 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/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/education/albany-civil-rights-instituteForms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/education/albany-civil-rights-instituteForms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaPhotograph by Ralph DanielCivil rights--Georgia--AlbanyAfrican Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--AlbanyChurch buildings--Georgia--AlbanyMuseums--Georgia--AlbanySpiresMuseum buildings--Georgia--AlbanyBuildings--Georgia--AlbanyMt. Zion Baptist Church (Albany, Ga.)Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.)Albany Civil Rights Movement Museum (Albany, Ga.)Albany (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc.Albany Civil Rights Movement MuseumStillImage