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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
The Leesburg Stockade was an event in the civil rights movement in which a group of African-American teenage and pre-teen girls were arrested for protesting racial segregation in Americus, Georgia, and were imprisoned without charges for 60 days in poor conditions in the Lee County Public Works building, in Leesburg, Georgia.
On Thursday, June 20, Historic Savannah Foundation hosts “Susie King Taylor and the Making of Taylor Square” at Second African Baptist Church, 123 Houston St.
In the 1960s, state and local officials often focused on this hallmark of community organizing and suggested that civil rights protests were organized by people outside of a given community. In 1960, a group of Black college students took out a full page ad in Atlanta newspapers called “An Appeal for Human Rights” that expressed solidarity ...