Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum

The story

Named for the pastor who launched Savannah's civil rights movement from this building in the 1940s, housed in the former Black bank on West Broad Street.

Everything that was here

• 1996–present · still open

  Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights MuseumMuseum / Civil Rights

  Named for the pastor who launched Savannah's civil rights movement from this building in the 1940s, housed in the former Black bank on West Broad Street.

  See the map in 1997 →
• 1914–1996

  Wage Earners Savings BankBank / Historic Commercial Building

  The second-largest Black-owned bank in America in 1914, later NAACP headquarters and command center for Savannah's civil rights movement.

  See the map in 1915 →

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