The Georgia Civil Rights Trail: The Savannah Protest Movement

Honors Savannah's largely nonviolent civil rights campaign, in which W.W. Law and others led sit-ins and a sweeping boycott; their efforts desegregated the city in 1963, nearly a year before the federal Civil Rights Act.

The Georgia Civil Rights Trail: The Savannah Protest Movement is a historical marker in Savannah, Chatham County, erected in 2016. It is one of 339 historical markers documented in Chatham County, among 480 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 32.0782, -81.0896 near Savannah. The nearest cataloged historic site is Owens-Thomas House (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Savannah: Colonial Capital and Birthplace of, Owens-Thomas House, and Printing Office of James Johnston.

This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.