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  2. A Georgia beach aims to disrupt Black students' spring bash ...

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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.

  3. Tybee Island, Georgia - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. As Tybee Island implements control measures for weekend ...

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    Despite efforts to obtain permits from promoters of previous Orange Crush events, no permits were approved, and Tybee Island officials have set up restrictive access to the beach between April 16 ...

  5. Tybee Island Light - Wikipedia

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    16 nautical miles; 29 kilometres (18 mi) Characteristic. Fixed white. Tybee Island Light is a lighthouse next to the Savannah River Entrance, on the northeast end of Tybee Island, Georgia. It is one of seven surviving colonial era lighthouse towers, though highly modified in the mid 1800s.

  6. Tybee Island Strand Cottages Historic District - Wikipedia

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    Tybee Island Strand Cottages Historic District, also known as The Strand, is a historic district on Tybee Island, Georgia including 18 cottages, walkways, landscape and other features that are largely unchanged since the historic era of Tybee Island as a coastal resort. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

  7. Kemp signs bill holding Orange Crush organizers liable for ...

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    April 8, 2024 at 3:45 PM. People leave the beach during Orange Crush on Tybee Island on April 22. A bill that would hold event organizers financially responsible for public events thrown without a ...

  8. Police planning to break up annual event for Black students ...

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    A worker places a section of metal barricade along a main road on Tybee Island, Ga., on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, a few days ahead of the weekend beach party known as Orange Crush.

  9. Fort Pulaski National Monument - Wikipedia

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    Fort Pulaski National Monument is located on Cockspur Island between Savannah and Tybee Island, Georgia. It preserves Fort Pulaski, the place where the Union Army successfully tested rifled cannon in combat during the American Civil War in 1862, the success of which rendered brick fortifications obsolete. The fort was also used as a prisoner-of ...