Historians say an unsuccessful protest in Georgia helped Martin Luther King Jr. become a national leader

USA Today

By Marc Ramirez
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Picture courtesy: USA Today

Martin Luther King Jr. was a rising civil rights figure when he came to Albany, Georgia, in December 1961, keen to provide a shot in the arm to a desegregation movement that was gathering new steam.

King led sit-ins, marches and jail hunger strikes – but seven months later, he would leave Albany frustrated and defeated, his failure to achieve immediate results considered a setback for the surging national civil rights movement.

Publish : 2022-01-17 15:52:00

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