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'We are living that better day': Honoring the sacrifice of the ancestors at the Tybee Juneteenth Wade In
The site of the wade in holds deep, dual significance for civil rights and the transatlantic slave trade. In 1960, eleven African American students were arrested on this beach for protesting segregation, an action organized by the prominent local civil rights leader W.W. Law.