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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]
1960 Savannah Protest Movement commenced; Travis Field airport terminal built. Population: 147,537. [10] 1962 – Savannah station built. 1963 – Savannah Union Station demolished. 1967 – Grumman Aircraft Engineering Co. opens Savannah office. [34] 1968 The DeSoto Hotel opens. Abercorn Plaza shopping centre opens for business.
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 ...
Warren K. Leffler's photograph of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom at the National Mall. Beginning with the murder of Emmett Till in 1955, photography and photographers played an important role in advancing the civil rights movement by documenting the public and private acts of racial discrimination against African Americans and the nonviolent response of the movement.
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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 ...
Kasey Giddens speaks on the steps of Savannah City Hall as abortion-rights supporters gathered on Monday, June 24, 2024, which is the 2nd anniversary of the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe V. Wade.
James Edward Orange was born in Birmingham, Alabama, but moved to Atlanta, Georgia in the early 1960s. [4] Orange, at over 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) tall [5] [4] and over 300 pounds (140 kg), [6] was physically impressive but deeply committed to non-violence.