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The Independent UK
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Russ Bynum

Georgia county says slave descendants can't use referendum to challenge rezoning of island community

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Zoning changes by a Georgia county that some residents say threaten one of the South's last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave descendants can't be challenged with a referendum, an attorney said Monday in a letter to the judge considering a petition by local voters.

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