Savannah is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia and the county seat of Chatham County. Established in 1733 on the Savannah River,the city of Savannah became the British colonial capital of the Province of Georgia and later the first state capital of Georgia. A strategic port city in the American Revolution and during the American Civil War,Savannah is today an industrial center and an important Atlantic seaport. It is Georgia's fifth most populous city,with a 2020 U.S. census population of 147,780. The Savannah metropolitan area,Georgia's third-largest,had a 2020 population of 404,798.
Garden City is a city in Chatham County,Georgia,United States,located just northwest of Savannah. As of the 2020 census,the city had a population of 10,289. Part industrial and part residential,the city is home to much of the heavy industry in Chatham County. It hosts the largest and busiest ocean terminal of the Port of Savannah,the flagship operation of the Georgia Ports Authority.
Medgar Wiley Evers was an American civil rights activist and the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi,who was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith. Evers,a decorated U.S. Army combat veteran who had served in World War II,was engaged in efforts to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi,end the segregation of public facilities,and expand opportunities for African Americans including the enforcement of voting rights.
Susie King Taylor is known for being the first African-American nurse during the American Civil War. Beyond just her aptitude in nursing the wounded of the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment,Taylor was the first Black woman to self-publish her memoirs. She was the author of Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33rd United States Colored Troops,Late 1st S.C. Volunteers. She was also an educator to formerly bonded Black people in the reconstruction era South by opening various schools in Georgia. Taylor would also be a part of organizing the 67 Corps of the Women's Relief Corps in 1886.
Scouting in Georgia has a long history,from the 1910s to the present day,serving thousands of youth in programs that suit the environment in which they live. The state is home to many milestones for the Scouting movement. The Girl Scout birthplace is located in Savannah,and President Jimmy Carter served as a Scoutmaster in Plains,Georgia.
Elonnie J. Josey was an African-American activist and librarian. Josey was the first chair of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association,having been instrumental in its formation in 1970;served as president of the American Library Association from 1984 to 1985;and was the author of over 400 books and other publications.
Westley Wallace Law 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 life advocating for African-American history and culture in Savannah. He established the Savannah-Yamacraw Branch of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History,the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum,the King-Tisdell Cottage Museum,the Beach Institute of African American Culture,and the Negro Heritage Trail Tour.
Curtis V. Cooper was an American health care and civil rights leader from Georgia.
Prince Albert Jackson Jr. served as president of Savannah State College (1971–1978). During the 1970s,he collaborated with the University System of Georgia and Armstrong State College in Savannah to develop an integration plan between the formerly all-white Armstrong State and (then) Georgia State,a historically black college (HBCU). The plan eliminated redundancy in the teaching and business degree programs in both colleges.
Juanita Elizabeth Jackson Mitchell was born in Hot Springs,Arkansas,and was the first African-American woman to practice law in Maryland. She was married to Clarence M. Mitchell,Jr.,mother of two Maryland State Senators,and grandmother of one.
The NAACP Youth Council is a branch of the NAACP in which youth are actively involved. In past years,council participants organized under the council's name to make major strides in the Civil Rights Movement. Started in 1935 by Juanita E. Jackson,special assistant to Walter White and the first NAACP Youth secretary,the NAACP National Board of Directors formally created the Youth and College Division in March 1936.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States,formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois,Mary White Ovington,Moorfield Storey,and Ida B. Wells. Over the years,leaders of the organization have included Thurgood Marshall and Roy Wilkins.
The following is a timeline of the history of Savannah,Georgia,United States.
This is a timeline of the civil rights movement in the United States,a nonviolent mid-20th century freedom movement to gain legal equality and the enforcement of constitutional rights for people of color. The goals of the movement included securing equal protection under the law,ending legally institutionalized racial discrimination,and gaining equal access to public facilities,education reform,fair housing,and the ability to vote.
Maxine (Atkins) Smith born in Memphis,Tennessee,United States,was an academic,civil rights activist,and school board official.
Suzanne Jackson is an American visual artist,gallery owner,poet,dancer,educator,and set designer;with a career spanning five decades. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. Since the late 1960s,Jackson has dedicated her life to studio art with additional participation in theatre,teaching,arts administration,community life,and social activism. Jackson's oeuvre includes poetry,dance,theater,costume design,paintings,prints,and drawings.
The Greenville Eight was a group of African American students,seven in high school and one in college,that successfully protested the segregated library system in Greenville,South Carolina in 1960. Among the eight was Jesse Jackson,a college freshman. As a result of the staged sit-in,the library system in the city integrated.
Robert Edward Robinson was a lawyer,civil rights activist,and city councilmember in Savannah,Georgia. As a teenager,Robinson was involved in the integration of the city's school system and was part of a demonstration that contributed to the desegregation of Savannah Beach. He would later gain his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Georgia School of Law and practice law in Savannah,where he also was elected to the city council. He was murdered in 1989 by a mail bomb sent by Walter Moody,who would later be found guilty of murdering United States federal judge Robert Smith Vance in another mail bombing.
Clarie Collins Harvey was an African American businesswoman,religious leader and prominent activist during the civil rights movement in Mississippi. Her organization Womanpower Unlimited has been recognized by many for its role in sustaining the Freedom Riders during their imprisonment at Parchman Penitentiary. As a result of her long activist career,Harvey received many accolades,including the Outstanding Mississippian Award,given to her by Governor William Waller in 1974.
The Savannah Protest Movement was an American campaign led by civil rights activists to bring an end to the system of racial segregation in Savannah,Georgia. The movement began in 1960 and ended in 1963.
