Ralph Mark Gilbert

Ralph Mark Gilbert (March 17, 1899, Jacksonville, Florida - August 23, 1956, New York City) was an American civil rights leader and a Baptist minister.

Ralph Mark Gilbert
BornMarch 17, 1899
Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.
DiedAugust 23, 1956
Manhattan, New York, U.S.
OrganizationNAACP
MovementNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) lead American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968), American Civil Rights Movement

Religious Ministry

From 1939 until his death in 1956, he was the Pastor of the First African Baptist Church, located at 23 Montgomery Street on Franklin Square in Savannah's Historic District.[1]

Civil Rights

From 1942 to 1950, Gilbert served as president of the Savannah Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).[2] Under his tenure, the local chapter was reorganized, hundreds of Blacks were registered to vote, a progressive white Democratic politician, John G. Kennedy, became Mayor of Savannah and the city's Police Department hired its first Black police officers, known as the Original Nine.[3]

Death

Reverend Gilbert died August 23, 1956 while on vacation in New York City, New York.[4]

Honors

Savannah's Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum is named in honor of Dr. Gilbert. The museum is located at 460 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.in the Wage Earners Bank building constructed in 1914. Renovation of the building began in 1993 to house the museum and opened as Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum in 1996.

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Footnotes
  1. Reverend Ralph Mark Gilbert, First African Baptist Church, Savannah
  2. The Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum
  3. Son of city's 10th black police officer pens book, Adam Crisp, Savannah Morning News, July 23, 2007
  4. Savannah Tribune, August 30, 1956, page 1 and Savannah Morning News, August 28, 1956, page 17


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