Delivering Justice W. W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights

Name: Delivering Justice W. W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights
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ISBN: 9780763625924

ISBN-10: 0763625922

ISBN-13: 9780763625924

Edition: 2005

Authors: Benny Andrews, Jim Haskins

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"Grow up and be somebody," Westley Wallace Law's grandmother encouraged him as a young boy living in poverty in segregated Savannah, Georgia. Determined to make a difference in his community, W.W. Law assisted blacks in registering to vote, joined the NAACP and trained protestors in the use of nonviolent civil disobedience, and, in 1961, led the Great Savannah Boycott. In that famous protest, blacks refused to shop in downtown Savannah. When city leaders finally agreed to declare all of its citizens equal, Savannah became the first city in the south to end racial discrimination. A lifelong mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service, W.W. Law saw fostering communication between blacks and…

Book details

List price: $22.44
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Publication date: 1/1/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 30
Size: 8.50" wide x 12.13" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Benny Andrews (1930-2006) was a renowned African American fine artist whose work is in the permanent collections of more than thirty major museums, including the Smithsonian Institution, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. His dramatic, folk art-style illustrations have also appeared in several children's books. He passed away in 2006.