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 soldier who was the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi. Evers,a United States Army veteran who served in World War II,was engaged in efforts to overturn racial segregation at the University of Mississippi,end the segregation of public facilities,and expand opportunities for African Americans,including the enforcement of voting rights when he was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith.
Horace Julian Bond was an American social activist,leader of the civil rights movement,politician,professor,and writer. While he was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta,Georgia,during the early 1960s,he helped establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1971,he co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery,Alabama,and served as its first president for nearly a decade.
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund,Inc. is an American civil rights organization and law firm based in New York City.
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.
Lillie May Carroll Jackson,pioneer civil rights activist,organizer of the Baltimore branch of the NAACP. Invariably known as "Dr. Lillie","Ma Jackson",and the "mother of the civil rights movement",Lillie May Carroll Jackson pioneered the tactic of non-violent resistance to racial segregation used by Martin Luther King Jr. and others during the early civil rights movement.
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.
Lester George Jackson III is an American politician. He is a former state senator from Chatham County,Georgia. He was the 2009 presidential appointee to the Democratic National Committee,becoming the first person from the coastal region of Georgia to serve in this capacity in over 19 years.
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.
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.
Rupert Florence Richardson was an American civil rights activist and civil rights leader who served as the national president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1992 to 1995,and as the national president emeritus of the NAACP following her term as president. She also worked in the Louisiana state government for 30 years.
Several elections took place in the U.S. state of Georgia in 2022. The general election was held on November 8,2022. A runoff election for one of Georgia's seats in the United States Senate was held on December 6,2022. The runoff was scheduled because none of the candidates for Senate received 50% of the statewide vote in the general election. In addition to the Senate seat,all of Georgia's seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election. Also up for election were all of Georgia's executive officers and legislative seats,as well as one seat on the Georgia Public Service Commission. The Republican Party decisively won every single statewide office in Georgia except for the Federal Senate race which narrowly went Democratic in 2022.
The 2022 Georgia lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 8,2022,to elect the lieutenant governor of the U.S. state of Georgia. It coincided with various other statewide elections,including for U.S. Senate,U.S. House,and Governor of Georgia. Georgia is one of 21 states that elects its lieutenant governor separately from its governor.
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.
