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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]
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.
Pages in category "1960 protests" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... Savannah Protest Movement; Sharpeville massacre
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.
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 ...
In 1950, W. W. Law became the president of the Savannah chapter, and it was largely his efforts that led to the creation of the civil rights museum. [1] A special-purpose local-option sales tax was instituted by Chatham County in 1993 for the purposes of funding this museum, and a nonprofit organization headed by Law assumed control of the ...
Hundred students gathered in front of Savannah State’s Student Union building on the morning of Feb. 19 to protest cuts to the HBCU’s visual and performing arts programs.
1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; 2010s; Pages in category "1961 protests" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... Savannah Protest Movement