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Photograph of Savannah, Georgia civic leader and civil rights activist Ralph Mark Gilbert. Wearing a suit and bow tie, he sits in a chair and faces forward. Gilbert came to Savannah as pastor of the historic First African Baptist Church on Franklin Square, which he served from 1939 to 1956. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Gilbert was nationally known as an orator, tenor, and religious playwright. Gilbert, with members of neighboring churches and the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, organized Savannah's Greenbrier Children's Center. Gilbert reorganized the Savannah branch of the NAACP and was its president from 1942 to 1950. He was the organizer, convener, and first president of the Georgia Conference of the NAACP. Under his leadership, more than forty NAACP chapters were organized by 1950 in Georgia.
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  1. African American Baptists
  2. African American Civic Leaders
  3. African American Civil Rights Workers
  4. African American Clergy
  5. African American Men
  6. African American Orators
  7. African Americans
  8. Baptists
  9. Chairs
  10. Civic Leaders
  11. Civil Rights
  12. Civil Rights Workers
  13. Clergy
  14. Georgia
  15. Gilbert, Ralph Mark, D. 1956
  16. Men
  17. National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
  18. Orators
  19. Savannah

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