All tagged civil rights movements
In 1961, Albany Georgia Police Chief Laurie Pritchett restrained his forces from using violence on civil rights protesters. Instead he ordered their wholesale arrest of and incarceration in separate holding places in neighboring hamlets thus keeping his jails from getting overcrowded. Pritchett held Abernathy, MLK, and other leaders of the movement in Albany proper in horrid conditions including withholding food.
Local black women heard about the starving political prisoners and began feeding them some good down home food like fried chicken and biscuits with all the fixings and some “even churned a couple of quarts of homemade ice cream for us,” says Ralph Abernathy.
