SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - As part of Black History Month, we’re highlighting a church in Savannah with historic ties to the Underground Railroad and Civil Rights Movement. The First African Baptist ...

Very few fugitives from Georgia ever succeeded in reaching the North, or the Underground Railroad, Bordewich said. And it was extremely risky for churches to harbor fugitives.

SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) - As we continue our celebration of Black history, we are going back to the late 1600s when it is believed that the first Africans came to America. They came against their will as ...

Another rumor related to the slave trade is that the cellar under the First African Baptist Church was used as an underground railroad, which is likely true because air holes shaped like African ...

502 E Harris St., Savannah, Ga., 31401 The Beach Institute opened in 1867 as Savannah’s first school for African Americans. Today, the building is a museum that houses two floors of Black ...

SAVANNAH, GA. - Crouched inside a square, 3-foot-deep excavation hole, Blake Ayala carefully scraped a sample of red-brown dirt into a small baggie. Nearly a dozen high school and college students … ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - As part of Black History Month, we’re highlighting a church in Savannah with historic ties to the ...