Initially the established African-American leadership in Albany was resistant to the activities of the incoming SNCC activists. Clennon Washington King Sr. (C. W. King), an African-American real estate agent in Albany, was the SNCC agents' main initial contact. H. C. Boyd, the preacher at Shiloh Baptist in Albany allowed Sherrod to use part of his church to recruit people for meetings on nonviolence. For decades, the situation in segregated Albany had been insufferable for its black inhabitants, who made up 40% of the town's population. At the time of the Albany Movement's formation, sexual assaults against female students of all-black Albany State College by white men remained virtually ignored by law enforcement officials. Local news stations such as WALB and newspapers such as "The Albany Herald" refused to truthfully report on the abuse suffered by the Movement workers at the hands of local white people, even referring to blacks as "niggers nigras" on air and in print.