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|Creator:||WALB (Television station : Albany, Ga.)|
|Title:||WALB newsfilm clip of policemen monitoring the lunch counter integration attempts of several African Americans in Albany, Georgia, 1962|
In this silent WSB newsfilm clip from the summer of 1962, two Albany, Georgia, policemen in downtown Albany monitor the lunch counter integration efforts of several African Americans. The clip begins with two policemen in blue uniforms following three African American women as they walk through town. Three other black women follow behind. Later, a young man and two women walk between two different officers, followed by other African Americans and more police. Next, white customers at a lunch counter watch as African American women seat themselves at the same counter. Three policemen stand behind the African American women; an officer appears to speak to one of them. Finally, the women get up and head to the door while police follow and store customers watch. Outside, the police again follow the three women walking down the street. The Albany Movement, an organization created from the civil rights efforts of several clubs in town, directed many of the civil rights demonstrations in Albany, Georgia. Their tactics included kneel-ins, marches, and tests of segregated facilities.
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.
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|Types:||Moving images | News | Unedited footage|
|Subjects:||African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Albany | African American students--Georgia--Albany | African American women--Georgia--Albany | African Americans--Politics and government | Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--Albany | Civil rights movements--Georgia--Albany | Civil rights workers--Georgia--Albany | Direct action--Georgia--Albany | Passive resistance--Georgia--Albany | Police--Georgia--Albany | Segregation--Georgia--Albany | Sit-ins--Georgia--Albany | African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Albany | Central business districts--Georgia--Albany | Race relations | Albany (Ga.)--Politics and government--History--20th century | Albany (Ga.)--Race relations--History--20th century | Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.) | Albany (Ga.) | Dougherty County (Ga.)|
|Institution:||Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection|
|Contributors:||Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection | Digital Library of Georgia | Civil Rights Digital Library Collection (Digital Library of Georgia)|
|Online Publisher:||[Athens, Ga.] : Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection and the Digital Library of Georgia | 2007|
1 clip (ca. 50 sec.) : b&w, si. ; 16 mm.
Original found in the WALB newsfilm collection.
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Cite as: WALB newsfilm clip of policemen monitoring the lunch counter integration attempts of several African Americans in Albany, Georgia, 1962, 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.
Forms part of: Civil Rights Digital Library.
|Persistent Link to Item:||http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/crdl/id:ugabma_walb_walb00053|