The Civil Rights Movement in Albany, Georgia

1. The Civil Rights Movement in Albany, Georgia • Founded in 1961, the Albany Movement demands an end to all segregation. One of its leaders is Slater King, cousin of Martin Luther King. • By 1962, 1000 protesters have been jailed, including Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy, invited to town by the Albany Movement.

2. The Civil Rights Movement in Albany, Georgia C.B. King, brother of Slater King, who is a Civil Rights Attorney, after being assaulted by local police. Civil rights activist and real estate broker Slater Kingwith Bernice Johnson, one of the original SNCC Freedom Singers, who later formed the musical group Sweet Honey in the Rock.

3. Rebuilding Firebombed Churches in the South Bob Swann, a supporter of the civil rights movement from the north comes to rebuild southern churches. ManyAfrican American Churches are destroyed by those opposing the idea of equal rights and treatment for all African Americans.

4. What Comes Next in the South? How does a “protest movement” become a “constructive movement” Slater King Bob Swann

5. Earlier Intersection of the Swann & King Families • Bob Swann’s wife, Marjorie Swann, had long been active in the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE). Marjorie Swann Coretta Scott • While living in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Marjorie Swann had become close friends with a young Antioch College student who was also active in CORE – Corretta Scott who later marries Martin Luther King Coretta Scott King & Martin Luther King

6. What Comes Next? How do tenant farmers and sharecroppers feed and house their families if they are forced off the land? Fay Bennett National Sharecroppers Fund

7. What Comes Next? How do we ensure that the rights we’ve won in Congress and the courts actually result in desegregated schools and housing? Rev. Charles Sherrod Southwest Georgia Project Charles Sherrod Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

8. Planning a Land Trust for the American South 1968National Sharecroppers Fund provides a grant for eight people to travel to Israel to learn about land leasing from the Jewish National Fund. The delegation is impressed by the moshavovdim, agricultural communities on leased land, combining individual homesteads with cooperatively produced and marketed goods Slater King Bob Swann Charles Sherrod Faye Bennett

9. National Sharecroppers Fund Fay Bennett Leonard Smith James Mayes Albany Movement Slater King C.B. King Drafting the Blueprint for aNew Model of Land Tenure Southwest Georgia Project Charles Sherrod Southern Regional Council John Lewis James Wood Institute for Community Economics Bob Swann New Communities Inc. Southern Cooperative Development Program/ Federation of Southern Cooperatives Fr. Albert J. McKnight Charles Prejean Southern Rural Project William Peace Southern Christian Leadership Conference Albert Turner Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association Lewis Black

10. New Communities, Inc., 1969“A nonprofit organization to hold land in perpetual trust for the permanent use of rural communities.”