- Collection:
- WALB Newsfilm
- Title:
- WALB newsfilm clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. encouraging an audience in their pursuit of civil rights in Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia, 1962 July
- Creator:
- WALB (Television station : Albany, Ga.)
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 - Date of Original:
- 1962-07
- Subject:
- African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Albany
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Albany
Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--Albany
Civil rights movements--Georgia--Albany
Civil rights workers--Georgia--Albany
Imprisonment--Georgia--Albany
Mass meetings--Georgia--Albany
Police--Georgia--Albany
Segregation--Georgia--Albany
Arrest--Georgia--Albany
Jails--Georgia--Albany
Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.)
Mt. Zion First Baptist Church (Albany, Ga.) - People:
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Pritchett, Laurie, 1926-2000 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Albany, 31.57851, -84.15574
- Medium:
- news
unedited footage - Type:
- Moving Image
- Description:
- In this WALB newsfilm clip from July, 1962, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks to a full house at a mass meeting held at Mt. Zion Baptist church in Albany, Georgia; he motivates the audience and encourages their pursuit of civil rights. King says "Let us stick together. Let us stay together. When these mass meetings are called, let us be present. And when something else is called, let us be ready. And if necessary, we must be willing to fill up the jails all over the state of Georgia." The audience responds to King's words with applause. King came to Albany at the request of the Albany Movement to lend support to local civil rights efforts. One strategy employed during the civil rights movement was to overwhelm local officials by filling prisons with demonstrators from mass protests. In response, Albany police chief Laurie Pritchett arranged for the housing of protesters in jails in the surrounding Georgia counties.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for digital conversion and description of the WALB News Film collection.
Title provided by cataloger. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/crdl/id:ugabma_walb_walb00057
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/crdl/do:ugabma_walb_walb00057
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ugabma_walb_walb00057/presentation/manifest.json
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: WALB newsfilm clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. encouraging an audience in their pursuit of civil rights in Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia, 1962 July, Albany Movement compilation, WALB News Film collection, Albany Movement Compilation Roll 3 [Tape 2], Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Award Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Ga., as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Extent:
- 1 clip (ca. 34 sec.) : b&w, sd. ; 16 mm.
- Original Collection:
- Original found in the WALB newsfilm collection.
Civil Rights Digital Library Collection (Digital Library of Georgia) - Holding Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
- Rights:
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