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Wednesday, March 07, 2012  Yaz Johnson, son of Albany Civil Rights Activist Johnnie Johnson told Commissioner Chris Pike he wants the Albany Municipal Auditorium as his father's memorial.

Friday, December 09, 2011  Updated with video; It's been 50 years since the Civil Rights movement began in Albany and it's taken that amount of time to recognize the students who made a sacrifice for the cause.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011  Updated with video; The City Commission revisited the issue of a Johnnie Johnson memorial at Tuesday's meeting.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011  Three Albany State College students who were expelled in 1961 for participating in Civil Rights demonstrations returned to the campus to tell their stories and share their experiences.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010  Dorothy Height, leading female voice of the 1960s civil rights movement, dies in DC at 98