Slave descendants take a fight to protect their Georgia island homes to voters
Associated Press
1 / 4
FILE - Ire Gene Grovner walks through remnants of the old slave's quarters at the Chocolate Plantation where his ancestors lived some eight generations ago on Sapelo Island, Ga., on May 16, 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)FILE - A utility pole stands in the middle of a marsh at sunset on Sapelo Island, Ga., on May 16, 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)FILE - Jazz Watts, a resident of Sapelo Island, wears a hat that reads "I am Sapelo" outside the McIntosh County courthouse in Darien, Ga., on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Russ Bynum, File)FILE - Cathleen Hillary, 93, the oldest resident of Sapelo Island, Ga. leaves a church service with her great granddaughter Milaika Ellison, for the 129th anniversary of St. Luke Baptist Church on the island on Sunday, June 9, 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
FILE - Ire Gene Grovner walks through remnants of the old slave's quarters at the Chocolate Plantation where his ancestors lived some eight generations ago on Sapelo Island, Ga., on May 16, 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)