What did the people of the Albany Movement do?

In 1955, the Supreme Court decision made segregation in bus and train stations illegal. On November 1, 1961, workers with the NAACP and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) decided to test the ruling. They sat in the “whites only” waiting room at the city’s bus station. They were arrested. The African American community united to form the Albany Movement. In December, black and white “freedom riders” arrived in Albany to support the Albany Movement. They were arrested at the Central Railway Terminal. The next day a group of students led a march to the train station. The students were arrested and jailed while the national news watched.