W.W. Law and the fight for civil rights Haskins, Jim 1941-2005 creator Andrews, Benny 1930-2006 illustrator text biography mau New York Scholastic 2005 monographic eng

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32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm A gripping biography of the mail carrier who orchestrated the Great Savannah boycott -- and was instrumental in bringing equality to his community. "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 whites as a fundamental part of his job. As this affecting, strikingly illustrated biography makes clear, this "unsung hero" delivered far more than the mail to the citizens of the city he loved. V 850 Lexile AD V Raz-Plus juvenile Jim Haskins ; illustrated by Benny Andrews. n-us-ga Law, W. W. (Westley Wallace) 1923-2002 Juvenile literature African American civil rights workers Georgia Savannah Biography Juvenile literature Civil rights workers Georgia Savannah Biography Juvenile literature African Americans Civil rights Georgia Savannah History 20th century Juvenile literature Civil rights movements Georgia Savannah History 20th century Juvenile literature Savannah (Ga.) Race relations Juvenile literature Savannah (Ga.) Biography Juvenile literature F294.S2 H24 2005 323/.092 B 0545900611 9780545900614 2005047114 DLC 050421 20231024104811.0 1982 eng