Albany Civil Rights Movement Museum
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| Type: | Color photographs |
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| Title: | Albany Civil Rights Movement Museum |
| Date: | 1998-2006 |
| Description: | Photograph of the Albany Civil Rights Movement Museum in Albany, Georgia. The Albany Civil Rights Movement Museum is located in the Old Mt. Zion Baptist Church. 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. |
| Subjects: | Mt. Zion Baptist Church (Albany, Ga.) | Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.) | Civil rights--Georgia--Albany | African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Albany | Church buildings--Georgia--Albany | Museums--Georgia--Albany | Spires | Albany Civil Rights Movement Museum (Albany, Ga.) | Museum buildings--Georgia--Albany | Buildings--Georgia--Albany | Albany (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc. | Albany (Ga.) | Dougherty County (Ga.) |
| Contributors: | New Georgia Encyclopedia | Georgia. Dept. of Economic Development |
| Rights and Usage: | Courtesy of Georgia Department of Economic Development. Please do not use any images without permission. |
| Related Materials: | http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3211 | Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Multimedia.jsp?id=m-8536 |
| Related Institutions: | New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project) |
| Collection Information: | New Georgia Encyclopedia |