W.W. Law oral history interview, 1990 Nov. 15.

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W.W. Law oral history interview, 1990 Nov. 15.

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The collection consists of an oral history interview with W.W. Law on November 15, 1990 in which he discusses early childhood memories of family and church; early twentieth century Savannah; segregated schools in Savannah; Dr. Ralph Mark Gilbert and the revival of the NAACP in Georgia; the establishment of a Georgia Federation of NAACP Branches; Gilbert, Primus King and Dr. Brewer's fight to end the white primary; YMCA; Gilbert and voter registration drives; John McGlockton; Ella Baker in Savannah; NAACP youth organization; voter registration "schools"; Johnny Bouhan and the Savannah political machine; John Kennedy and the birth of city management; desegregation of the police force; segregated lines for the "Freedom Train" (1948); Savannah's progressive race relations; Jackie Robinson; NAACP and the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers union; Gilbert and A.T. Walden, John Wesley Dobbs, and C.L. Harper; Georgia's attacks on the NAACP in the 1940s; NAACP youth organization and its concentration on black history and philosophy; John Clifford Hardwick III; Walter J. Leonard; learning to speak in public; World War II service; lobbying for youth causes; historical preservation; Mills B. Lane IV; early NAACP leaders; Dr. William Madison Boyd; D.U. Pullum and "Terrible" Terrell County; John Wesley Dobbs; Reverend Shropshire; NAACP and Martin Luther King Jr.; churches and the NAACP; lunch counter sit-ins (1960); mass meetings; Hosea Williams and voter registration; Rev. Oliver Wendell Holmes; and grass roots movement.

7 audiotapes ; cassette.Transcript (94 p.)

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