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Delivering Justice: W.W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights

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A gripping biography of the mail carrier who orchestrated the Great Savannah boycott — and used to be instrumental in bringing equality to his community.

“Grow up and be any individual,” Westley Wallace Law’s grandmother encouraged him as a young boy living in poverty in segregated Savannah, Georgia. Decided to make a difference in his community, W.W. Law assisted blacks in registering to vote, joined the NAACP and trained protestors in the usage of nonviolent civil disobedience, and, in 1961, led the Great Savannah Boycott. In that famous protest, blacks refused to buy in downtown Savannah. When city leaders in spite of everything agreed to declare all of its citizens equal, Savannah become the first city within 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 a part of his job. As this affecting, strikingly illustrated biography makes clear, this “unsung hero” delivered excess of the mail to the citizens of the city he loved.

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