Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum
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Southern view of the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights
Museum
View from Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
Dr. Ralph Mark Gilbert was the father of the Savannah
Civil Rights Movement, minister, playwright, great orator, producer, and
director. Dr. Gilbert reorganized the Savannah branch of the NAACP
and was the president of the state chapter of the NAACP. During his
eight years as president, he organized more than 40 branches of the NAACP
throughout the state.
Wesltey Wallace Law is a historian and civil rights
activist. He became the president of the Savannah branch of
the NAACP in 1950. He orchestrated the civil rights movement of the
50's and 60's in Savannah. The Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum
was brought about by his vision.
Plaque describing Civil Rights Movement in Savannah
Hosea Williams - part of the early political process
in Savannah
Juanita Terry Williams - wife of Hosea Williams ran
unsuccessfully for Superior Court Clerk in 1961
Judge's bench in the day of Jim Crow
Oldest black congregation in North America
Founded in 1788
Erected in 1859
Example of protest against department stores as a result
of students being arrested at lunch counters
Some of the first 19 black students to integrate the
high schools in Savannah
Levy's Azalea Room lunch counter - March 16, 1960
Pictures representing part of the West Broad Street
Exhibit
NAACP leaders on the courthouse steps on Wright Square
- Sunday afternoon prayer vigil
Part of the Segragation Exhibit - segregation was labeled
publicly all over the community
Replica of one of the stain glass windows from First
African Baptist Church where the early weekly Sunday meetings were held