How 99 Black Americans Gained—Then Lost—Land on an Idyllic Georgia Island

“You could feel chills to know that they had it and then they just pulled the rug from under them, so to speak.”

By: RUTH MURAI

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Aerial view of Skidaway Island, Georgia .Carol Highsmith/Library of Congress

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On Skidaway Island, off the coast of Georgia, “not one blade of grass feels out of place.” Giant oak trees provide shade from the heat. Nature surrounds you, but as Center for Public Integrity reporter Alexia Fernández Campbell describes, it “seems to have been tamed to become amenities” for The Landings, a gated community that takes up half of the island.

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