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Photograph of W. W. Law standing on the front steps of the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum in Savannah, Georgia. Law founded the museum in honor of his boyhood mentor and pastor, Ralph Mark Gilbert, who revived the Savannah chapter of the NAACP and is considered to be the father of the civil rights movement in that city.
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  1. African American Civil Rights Workers
  2. African Americans
  3. Civil Rights
  4. Civil Rights Workers
  5. Doors
  6. Georgia
  7. Law, W. W. (Westley Wallace), 1923 2002
  8. Museums
  9. National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
  10. Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum (Savannah, Ga.)
  11. Savannah
  12. Stairs
  13. United States

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