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Tybee Island's first Black-owned Main Street home faces demolition, despite community outcry
"A lot of folks said a Black person was not going to build a house there. And my father said, 'Yes, I'm going to build a house there.'" ...
Billie Brown-Jones worked for the Neighborhood House on the Near East Side for decades
Even when she retired in 1993, Billie Brown-Jones asked people to donate to her scholarship fund rather than give retirement ...
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Tybee Island residents gather to save historic Brown house from demolition
In the 1960s, just over a decade after Brown built his house on First Street, Black youth led a peaceful wade-in to ...