Help Save Gullah-Geechee Land

nativenews:

Although it may seem hard to believe–both of my paternal grandparents were born into slavery in what is now America’s Gullah-Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor.

But about a decade after Reconstruction was dismantled, they were cheated out of their family-owned farm. Black Americans have been, and are still being cheated out of their land. 

In 2006, the Associated Press published the findings of its 18-month investigation which revealed a pattern of African Americans being cheated out of their land, or run off it through methods, including intimidation, trickery, forged deeds, violence, arson, and outright murder–in 107 documented land takings in 13 southern and border states. Crooked judges and law enforcement officials were involved in  several of the cases uncovered by the AP.

That’s why I need your help to prevent thousands of land-rich, but cash poor Gullah-Geechee families from having their highly-coveted land sold from under their feet at tax auctions.

If they lose the land they own now–they face a very depressing future: Either they’ll become homeless. Or they’ll remain permanently displaced, because they’ll never be able to earn enough money to replace the beautiful land that’s been passed down to them by their ancestors.

Stop land-theft, gentrification, and colonialism NOW

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