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The city of Savannah, Georgia, was founded in 1733, [1] making it the oldest city in the state and one of the oldest in the United States. [2] [3] At its founding, the city was a farming community where slavery was banned, though the institution became legal in 1750 and, in the following years, Savannah became a major port city in the Atlantic slave trade. [1]
All of the archive's substantive content was created by participants and activists of the American civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. The archive is a primary source for pictures, events, documents, people, poetry, oral histories, commentaries and largely forgotten stories about the civil rights movement.
Hosea Williams, image and text from recognition documents distributed by the Alabama Dept. of Public Safety in the mid–1960s. Williams first joined the NAACP, during which time he was a leader in the Savannah Protest Movement.
Williams is still alive at 81 years old and is currently spending his 2019 summer opening up his own museum, which will showcase more than 350 images and artifacts from the civil rights movement.
Between the 1960s and 1980s, US student activists led a nationwide movement to pressure their universities to cut financial ties with companies that supported South Africa’s apartheid regime.
Westley Wallace Law (January 1, 1923 – July 29, 2002) was an American civil rights leader from Savannah, Georgia. He was president of the Savannah chapter of the NAACP and made great strides in desegregation through nonviolent resistance from 1950 to 1976, serving as a leader in the Savannah Protest Movement. He spent much of the rest of his ...
Pages in category "1960 protests" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... Savannah Protest Movement; Sharpeville massacre
But suffice it to say that of 900-some soldiers who marched out of the Great Circle Fairgrounds where they trained as 1862 began, there were no more than 300 of those original troops left by the ...