For my Museum report I chose to go to the Ralph Mark Gilbert Museum. Someone I knew told me this was one of the best museum to go to and they had a lot of information on Savannah way back in the days when slavery was around. The civil rights movement made Ralph the father. When I walked into the museum the first thing that caught my eye was the parts on segregation. They had information on how colored people were treated and how whites acted towards colored. I saw things about how black kids had to walk to school while white kids were able to catch a ride by the bus. Next I basically experience being in a restaurant while segregation was going on. In the back of the museum they had this spot where any person can press a button and listen at
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Some blacks were able to vote but there was a problem with that to. Blacks voted for white’s candidate but whites would not vote for black candidates. Next came the big thing the worker sent us to a theatre part where we watched a clip on how things went on. During the clip the most important topic was when the NAACP pushed for creating districts. OON March 16 1960 a 15 month economic boycott took place in Savannah, Georgia. The boycott was because Joan Tyson Hall and Ernest Robinson were arrested for sitting in the white-only restaurant at the store. This boycott caused a lot of store to go into bankruptcy and the Levy’s store was one of them to be affected. White business owners had started integrating their workforce. Savannah was also one of the most integrated cities in the south. A meeting was called on September 24, 1961 Out of nowhere there were hundreds of black people who came to attend the mass meeting. For the whole 15 months of the boycott every meeting was at a different destination but they all started at four o’clock. The colored people would not go into a store for nothing if the needed something The NCAAP had a clothing drive where everybody would trade off clothes and receive clothes from
Some blacks were able to vote but there was a problem with that to. Blacks voted for white’s candidate but whites would not vote for black candidates. Next came the big thing the worker sent us to a theatre part where we watched a clip on how things went on. During the clip the most important topic was when the NAACP pushed for creating districts. OON March 16 1960 a 15 month economic boycott took place in Savannah, Georgia. The boycott was because Joan Tyson Hall and Ernest Robinson were arrested for sitting in the white-only restaurant at the store. This boycott caused a lot of store to go into bankruptcy and the Levy’s store was one of them to be affected. White business owners had started integrating their workforce. Savannah was also one of the most integrated cities in the south. A meeting was called on September 24, 1961 Out of nowhere there were hundreds of black people who came to attend the mass meeting. For the whole 15 months of the boycott every meeting was at a different destination but they all started at four o’clock. The colored people would not go into a store for nothing if the needed something The NCAAP had a clothing drive where everybody would trade off clothes and receive clothes from