Researchers estimate there are less than 30 incorporated historic Black towns in the United States, down from 1,200 at the peak between the 1880s and 1915.
Black residents of the Hogg Hummock community on Sapelo Island and their supporters packed a meeting of McIntosh County's elected commissioners to oppose zoning changes that could pressure them to sell their land.
By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press - Hogg Hummock residents in Georgia are fighting to preserve zoning protections that have shielded them from wealthy buyers and tax increases for nearly 30 years, but county officials have proposed eliminating those protections and allowing wealthy developers to build large beach houses on the island.
Descendants of enslaved people living on a Georgia island are watching anxiously Monday evening as county commissioners consider doubling the maximum size of houses that can be built in their tiny community of modest homes.
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