Georgia’s highest court is weighing in on a fight over special protections for one of the South’s last Gullah-Geechee ...

Georgia’s highest court is weighing in on a fight over special protections for one of the South’s last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black people descended from slaves SAVANNAH, Ga.

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It's among a dwindling number of small communities started by emancipated island slaves — known collectively as Gullah, or Geechee in Georgia — scattered along the coast from North Carolina to ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia's highest court waded ... of the South's last Gullah-Geechee communities founded by freed slaves. Residents of largely unspoiled Sapelo Island have been trying ...

Slave Descendants Fight to Protect Their Threatened Island Community at Georgia's Highest Court SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia's highest court waded Wednesday into a fight between Black landowners ...