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Martin Luther King Jr. (second from right) and Ralph David Abernathy (third from right) pray during their arrest in Albany on July 27, 1962. William G. Anderson, the president of the Albany Movement, asked King and Abernathy to help with efforts to desegregate the city.

Courtesy of Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia Libraries.

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