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Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum
The History of Savannah's Civil Rights Movement
The Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum is dedicated to the history of Savannah’s Civil Rights Movement and the story of the “freedom fighters” of the local chapter of the NAACP.
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W. W. Law was president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and founder of the Civil Rights Museum and the Black Heritage Festival. The Museum is named for his mentor, Reverend Dr. Ralph Mark Gilbert, the 13th pastor of the First African Baptist Church and the “Modern father of Savannah’s Civil Rights Movement.”
Come visit the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum. Walk through three floors of history. Read about Ralph Mark Gilbert, the 13th pastor of Savannah’s First African Baptist Church. Remembered as the “father” of the 20th century Civil Rights Movement in Savannah, who reignited the local chapter of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the 1940s. Gilbert mentored Westley Wallace Law, who took over the leadership of the NAACP in 1950 and led the protest movement of the 1960s.
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