W.W. Law oral history interview, 1990 Nov. 16.

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W.W. Law oral history interview, 1990 Nov. 16.

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The collection consists of an oral history interview with W.W. Law on November 16, 1990 in which he discusses mass meetings and the boycott of white stores; the Ku Klux Klan; Law fired from the U.S. Postal Service; Elliot Hagen; being named to the NAACP national board; BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION; desegregation of Savannah's schools; Donald Hollowell; desegregation; reinstatement to the Postal Service; historic preservation of Savannah's black neighborhoods; voter registration campaign of 1946; Bouhan machine; Kelly Bryant; voting in Savannah; election day slow downs; the Mingledorf election; Judge Emmanuel Lewis; T.J. Hopkins; Colored Citizens Committee of Chatham County; political payoffs; desegregation of public facilities; redistricting Savannah; NAACP voter recommendations; block voting; mass meetings; Reverend Ralph Mark Gilbert's early fights for equality; speaking styles of A.T. Walden, Dr. Benjamin Mays, Reverend Gilbert, and John Wesley Dobbs; Adam Clayton Powell and Gilbert; Frank W. Spencer and efforts to train black river boat pilots; and black Savannah history.

7 audiotapes ; cassette.Transcript (90 p.)

Georgia State University

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SNAC Resource ID: 7403161

Georgia State University

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