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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]
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
The Vietnam War that began in 1955 and saw an increased presence of US troops a decade later prompted widespread protests across American college campuses by the mid-1960s.
On Friday, after more than 60 years, the state of South Carolina cleared those records of the seven men who were arrested for participating in the sit-in protests over those two days in March 1960 ...
James H. Karales (July 15, 1930, Canton, Ohio – April 1, 2002, Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.) was an American photographer and photo-essayist best known for his work with Look magazine from 1960 to 1971.
Over the following century, various efforts were made by African Americans to secure their legal and civil rights, such as the civil rights movements of 1865–1896 and of 1896–1954. The movement was characterized by nonviolent mass protests and civil disobedience following highly publicized events such as the lynching of Emmett Till in 1955.
On the Armstrong campus. Roughly 80 students and community members gathered on GSU Armstrong campus in Savannah for a planned “Rally for Palestine.”