Search for:. La Guerra con Mexico Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow. Translated by Floralba Vivas. Rethinking Schools. Handout in Spanish for the U. Mexico War Tea Party. By Alan J. How a teacher and his students organized a tour of the hidden history of slavery in New York. By Thom Thacker and Michael A. An art contest is used as the basis from which students can examine primary historical documents advertisements for runaway slaves to gain a deeper understanding of the institution of slavery in the North.
Lesson by Bill Bigelow and student reading by Howard Zinn. Interactive activity introduces students to the history and often untold story of the U.
The perennial desire to gain more control over their own lives led some middle-class African Americans to organize voter registration drives in the s and s. Others petitioned local governments to make improvements in the infrastructure of Black neighborhoods. King , went to law school and used his talents on behalf of African Americans in the segregated courtrooms of southwest Georgia.
The SNCC workers encouraged students and others in Albany to challenge the establishment and its segregation policies. From the start they faced opposition from whites as well as conservative African Americans. Divisions in the Black community would continue to plague civil rights efforts throughout and They did so in mid-November , when the major Black improvement organizations in town formed the Albany Movement and selected as their president William G.
Anderson , a young Black physician. Mass meetings were called, protestors marched, and by mid-December more than demonstrators had been jailed. The leaders decided to call in Martin Luther King Jr. In December King spoke at a mass meeting, marched the next day, and was arrested and jailed. In Albany, King witnessed the power of song to inspire and empower the crowds attending the mass meetings. Out of Albany emerged the SNCC Freedom Singers , including Albany native Bernice Johnson Reagon , who brought this rich musical tradition, borrowed from the rural Baptist churches, to other communities around the nation.
King returned to Albany the following summer for sentencing on the convictions relating to the December marches. Although he and fellow civil rights leader Ralph David Abernathy chose jail over paying a fine, a white attorney anonymously paid their fines, and they were released against their will.
King decided to stay and carry on his effort to desegregate the city. He had a formidable opponent in Albany police chief Laurie Pritchett. Pritchett ostensibly practiced the nonviolence that King preached, ordering his officers to avoid brutality, at least when the TV cameras and news reporters were present.
Prepared for the waves of marchers King encouraged, Pritchett had them arrested and sent off to jails in the surrounding counties, including Baker , Mitchell , and Lee. In the end King ran out of willing marchers before Pritchett ran out of jail space. Once again King got himself arrested, and once again he was let go. By early August it was clear that King had proved ineffective in bringing about change in Albany, but he had learned the important lessons that he and the SCLC would carry to Birmingham.
King might have felt,. The following spring the city commission removed all the segregation statutes from its books. From Albany, SNCC workers and others led protest actions in nearby Americus and Moultrie , and African Americans in other southwest Georgia towns and counties were inspired to challenge their local white power structures. The Albany Movement ended in August and did not accomplish many of its goals at the moment. The Albany Movement was a learning curve and provided a valuable lesson for King and his supporters who were to face a similar situation in Birmingham.
King attributed the failure of the Albany Movement to a lack of planning and a not so clear protest strategy. Birmingham Campaign. James Meredith and Ole Miss.
Carson, In Struggle , Forman, The Making of Black Revolutionaries , Lewis, King , This entry is part of the following collection Albany Movement. Civil Disobedience. Martin Luther King, Jr. Related Entries Carmichael, Stokely. Challenor, Herschelle Sullivan. Connor, Theophilus Eugene "Bull". Harding, Vincent Gordon. Kennedy, John Fitzgerald. Kunstler, William Moses.
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