Showing incredible resilience, places like Albany, Georgia, saw massive local mobilization against segregation, even as activists were repeatedly arrested.
Local newspapers and journalists, many associated with the black press, played an essential role in documenting stories, especially in places the national media might have overlooked.
Image: Septima Clark, center, the “mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” with Rosa Parks and Parks’ mother, Leona McCauley, 1956.
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