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.

in Albany, Georgia
C.B. King , brother of
Slater King, who is a
Civil Rights Attorney, after being assaulted by local police.
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 .

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.

How does a “ protest movement ” become a
“ constructive movement ”
Slater King Bob Swann

Earlier Intersection of the
Swann & King Families
 Bob Swann ’ s wife,
Marjorie Swann, had long been active in the
Congress on Racial
Equality (CORE).
Marjorie Swann Coretta Scott
 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
Coretta Scott King & Martin Luther King

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

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

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
 The delegation is impressed by the moshav ovdim , agricultural communities on leased land, combining individual homesteads with cooperatively produced and marketed goods
Charles Sherrod Faye Bennett

National Sharecroppers Fund
Fay Bennett
Leonard Smith
James Mayes
Albany Movement
Slater King
C.B. King
Southwest
Georgia Project
Charles Sherrod
Southern Regional
Council
John Lewis
James Wood
New
Communities
Inc.
Southern Cooperative
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Southern Cooperatives
Fr. Albert J. McKnight
Charles Prejean
Southwest Alabama Farmers
Cooperative Association
Lewis Black
Institute for Community
Economics
Bob Swann
Southern
Rural Project
William Peace
Southern Christian
Leadership Conference
Albert Turner
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“ A nonprofit organization to hold land in perpetual trust for the permanent use of rural communities.
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