We found this over the holidays while browsing Netflix instant play. Highly recommending: Leave it to a Swedish film crew to deliver a deeply insightful look at America’s Black Panther Party with rare, rare footage of such icons as Stokely Carmichael (and his mother, Mabel R. Carmichael), Huey Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and Angela Davis (a potent… Continue reading Angela Davis in 2011 Documentary
Category: Civil Rights Movement
50 Years After the Albany Movement
Albany Civil Rights Institute, June 2011 (ACRI) Photo: A.G. Jones While in Albany researching the novel in June 2011, I snapped the picture above during the opening reception of the SNCC 50th Anniversary of the Albany Movement. The Movement was founded on November 17, 196, so ACRI has had many festivities throughout 2011… Continue reading 50 Years After the Albany Movement
Poor People’s Campaign ~ Lessons from the Streets of 1968
My family was living on Hazard Drive in Albany, Georgia when Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4, 1968—my late mother’s 42nd birthday. I was two months shy of 14 and felt doubly sad—that King’s life had been snuffed out and my mother would cry for him on her birthday. Five weeks later, on… Continue reading Poor People’s Campaign ~ Lessons from the Streets of 1968
Powerful Reserve
Notch > November 1st On this day in 1961, SNCC workers Charles Sherrod and Cordell Reagon, along with nine members of the NAACP Youth Council—funded by local business man Tom Chatmon—test new Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) rules at Trailways bus station in Albany, Georgia. Meeting Rev. Charles Sherrod at the 50th Anniversary of the Albany… Continue reading Powerful Reserve