Tybee MLK Human Rights Organization

10/14/2026

The research passion and hardwork of TybeeMLK Human Rights Orgsnization in the creation of Tybee Black History Trail has been published in a scholarly article in a National Geographical Review Journal- Creating Memories in Community, edited by Stephen P. Hanna and Amy E. Potter

The Tybee Island, Georgia Black History Trail: A Community Approach to Black Geographies- by Dr. Amy Potter, Julia Pearce CoFounder TybeeMLK, Patricia Leiby, Community Outreach Director TybeeMLK, Joyah Mitchell, then Geographical Intern Georgia Southern University, and Allen Lewis, Tybee Island Historical Society

The Tybee Island Black History Trail is a star in the cap of the City of Tybee and Tybee residents past and present. The book also acknowledges sincere thanks to Sarah Jones and Kelsey Chandler of the Tybee Island Historical Society, the Brown Family and the City of Tybee Island for their contribution toTybee Black History Trail.

The article is dedicated in loving memory to Mallory Pearce and Jane Bridges.

10/13/2026

10/13/2026

Dark skin and tightly curled hair are found among Indigenous populations in parts of Southeast Asia, Australia and Melanesia, including communities in the Andaman Islands, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Bougainville and Papua New Guinea. Similar physical traits, however, do not automatically mean that these populations belong to one ethnic group or that they recently migrated from Africa. Their histories are far more complex, shaped by ancient migrations, geographic isolation, adaptation and interactions with neighboring populations.

Modern humans began dispersing out of Africa tens of thousands of years ago, with some populations moving through southern Asia and eventually reaching Island Southeast Asia, New Guinea and Australia. Over long periods of time, populations living in regions with intense ultraviolet radiation developed and retained very dark pigmentation through different combinations of genetic variation and natural selection. Some Melanesian and Australian populations, for example, have extremely dark pigmentation that reflects their own long evolutionary histories.
The historical term “Negrito,” once used to group several dark-skinned Indigenous populations across Asia, can therefore be misleading if it suggests they are one people. The communities placed under that label have distinct languages, cultures, population histories and genetic backgrounds. What these photographs reveal is not one hidden population, but the remarkable diversity produced by humanity's long history across Asia and Oceania.

10/13/2026

10/13/2026

If only we as a nation had such clarity and courage

10/13/2026

Monday Tybee’s Farmer Market 4:00 pm -6:00 pm
Only two more Mondays before closing for the winter.
Next Monday come visit TybeeMLK Table
Big Thank You to Steve & Nancy who run the Farmers Market they Love Tybee’s Nonprofits
See you Monday

10/12/2026

We acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Yamasee Guale, Euchee, peoples who are the original inhabitants of Tybee Island. As the Indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Guale and Euchee have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as Caretakers of this Place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory.

As Guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the Ancestors, Elders, and Relatives of the Guale and Euchee Communities by affirming their Sovereign Rights as First Peoples

TybeeMLK Human Rights Organization

What can the citizens of Tybee Island do: Help pay for transportation and Lodging of Euchee Ancestral Daughter, Cynthia Mae Tiger from Oklahoma to attend Tybee Indigenous Peoples on November 8, 2026 at 3:00 pm at Tybee Post Theater - use Venmo or Zelle send to Cynthia Mae Tiger or Julia Pearce

History
Yuchi aka Euchee
Regions with significant populations
United States United States
Today: Oklahoma
Historically: Tennessee, later Alabama and Georgia
The Yuchi people are a Native American tribe based in Oklahoma, though their original homeland was in the southeastern United States.

In the 16th century, the Yuchi /Euchee lived in the eastern Tennessee River valley. By the late 17th century, they had migrated south to Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina, settling Coastal Georgia and North Carolina Some also migrated to the Florida panhandle. After suffering heavy losses from epidemic diseases and warfare in the 18th century, the remaining Yuchi bands were forcibly relocated to Indian Territory in the 1830s, thousands of lives lost during the Trail of Tears

Photo: The fact that there is this Confederate Marker on the Highway to Tybee but there is No marker for the Removed Euchee Native Americans or the Trafficked African makes a profound statement about the history we value

10/11/2026

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