1. The Civil Rights Movement
in Albany, Georgia
 Founded in 1961, the Albany
Movement demands an end
to all segregation. One of its
leaders is Slater King, cousin
of Martin Luther King.
 By 1962, 1000
protesters have
been jailed,
including Martin
Luther King and
Ralph Abernathy,
invited to town by
the Albany
Movement.

2. The Civil Rights Movement
in Albany, Georgia
Civil rights activist and real estate broker
Slater King with Bernice Johnson, one of
the original SNCC Freedom Singers, who
later formed the musical group Sweet
Honey in the Rock.
C.B. King, brother of
Slater King, who is a
Civil Rights Attorney,
after being assaulted
by local police.

3. Rebuilding Firebombed Churches
in the South
Bob Swann, a supporter
of the civil rights movement
from the north comes to
rebuild southern churches.
Many African American
Churches are destroyed
by those opposing the
idea of equal rights and
treatment for all
African Americans.

4. Bob SwannSlater King
What Comes Next in the
South?
How does a “protest movement” become a
“constructive movement”

5. Earlier Intersection of the
Swann & King Families
 Bob Swann’s wife,
Marjorie Swann,
had long been
active in the
Congress on Racial
Equality (CORE).
Coretta Scott King & Martin Luther King
Coretta ScottMarjorie Swann
 While living in Yellow
Springs, Ohio,
Marjorie Swann had
become close friends
with a young Antioch
College student who
was also active in
CORE – Corretta Scott
who later marries
Martin Luther King

6. What Comes
Next?
How do tenant farmers and
sharecroppers feed and
house their families if they
are forced off the land?
Fay Bennett
National Sharecroppers
Fund

7. What Comes Next?
How do we ensure that the rights we’ve
won in Congress and the courts actually
result in desegregated schools and
housing?
Charles Sherrod
Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee
Rev. Charles Sherrod
Southwest Georgia
Project

8. Planning a Land Trust
for the American South
1968  National Sharecroppers Fund
provides a grant for eight people
to travel to Israel to learn about
land leasing from the Jewish
National Fund.
Slater King Bob Swann
Faye BennettCharles Sherrod
 The delegation is impressed
by the moshav ovdim,
agricultural communities on
leased land, combining
individual homesteads with
cooperatively produced and
marketed goods

9. Drafting the Blueprint for a
New Model of Land Tenure
New
Communities
Inc.
Albany Movement
Slater King
C.B. King
National Sharecroppers Fund
Fay Bennett
Leonard Smith
James Mayes Southwest
Georgia Project
Charles Sherrod
Institute for Community
Economics
Bob Swann
Southern Regional
Council
John Lewis
James Wood
Southern Christian
Leadership Conference
Albert Turner
Southern
Rural Project
William Peace
Southwest Alabama Farmers
Cooperative Association
Lewis Black
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Southern Cooperative
Development Program/
Federation of
Southern Cooperatives
Fr. Albert J. McKnight
Charles Prejean

10. New Communities, Inc., 1969
“A nonprofit organization to hold land in perpetual
trust for the permanent use of rural communities.”