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050	0	0	_aF294.S2 _bH24 2005
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100	1		_aHaskins, Jim, _d1941-2005.
245	1	0	_aDelivering justice : _bW.W. Law and the fight for civil rights / _cJim Haskins ; illustrated by Benny Andrews.
260			_aNew York : _bScholastic, _c2005.
300			_a32 unnumbered pages : _bcolor illustrations ; _c28 cm
505			_aV
520			_aA 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.
521	8		_a850 _bLexile AD
521	8		_aV _bRaz-Plus
600	1	0	_aLaw, W. W. _q(Westley Wallace), _d1923-2002 _vJuvenile literature.
650		0	_aAfrican American civil rights workers _zGeorgia _zSavannah _vBiography _vJuvenile literature.
650		0	_aCivil rights workers _zGeorgia _zSavannah _vBiography _vJuvenile literature.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xCivil rights _zGeorgia _zSavannah _xHistory _y20th century _vJuvenile literature.
650		0	_aCivil rights movements _zGeorgia _zSavannah _xHistory _y20th century _vJuvenile literature.
651		0	_aSavannah (Ga.) _xRace relations _vJuvenile literature.
651		0	_aSavannah (Ga.) _vBiography _vJuvenile literature.
700	1		_aAndrews, Benny, _d1930-2006, _eillustrator
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