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Tybee Island east of Savannah has grappled with the April beach party known as Orange Crush since students at Savannah State University, a historically Black school, started it more than 30 years ago.
Orange Crush is expected to return to Tybee Island April 19-21, after nearly 50,000 visitors converged on the island earlier this year. Orange Crush organizers want to make these entertainment ...
What promoters and locals call Orange Crush is Tybee Island's largest unpermitted event, which started in 1988 as a gathering for and sponsored by Savannah State University. After only a few years ...
Tybee Island was formerly home to "Orange Crush," an annual beach party attracting thousands of students from historically Black colleges and universities. The 2019 event was canceled after an organizer was arrested, and future events were moved to Jacksonville Beach, Florida , with organizers citing "lack of resources, limited parking, civil ...
Flowe, who is credited with founding Tybee Island's Orange Crush, sees parallels between his experience creating the event, historic treatment of Black beachgoers and restrictions being put in ...
Tybee Island is the only example of the American coastal resort movement in Georgia. The movement finds its roots in the English coastal resorts of Scarborough and Briton, in which British physicians expounded the virtues of the curative powers of sea water as an 18th-century panacea.
The Tybee Island mid-air collision was an incident on February 5, 1958, in which the United States Air Force lost a 7,600-pound (3,400 kg) Mark 15 nuclear bomb in the waters off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, United States. During a night practice exercise, an F-86 fighter plane collided with the B-47 bomber carrying the large weapon.
Although the official trademarked Orange Crush festival moved to Jacksonville in 2021, Orange Crush originated on Tybee Island in 1988 and has been an annual event attended primarily by Black ...