A 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.