HEADS UP! Protect Gullah/Geechee Sacred Burial Areas!
HEADS UP Gullah/Geechee Nation Famlee! STAND UP on Tuesday and protect our sacred Gullah/Geechee burial areas!
Join us at the BIg House Cemetery Court Hearing
on Tuesday, December 16, 2025, at 9:30 am at
the Beaufort County Courthouse
102 Ribaut Rd, Beaufort, SC 29902
Room 208
(NOTE: The room could change, so please check with deputies. Also, plan to stay for awhile since this is only one case on the docket and we do not know how many will be called ahead of ours.)
Our legal team from the Center for Constitutional Rights that is representing the Big House Cemetery Committee will be taking the case to reopen the access to Big House Cemetery before a judge finally!
Case Name: Big House Cemetery Committee v. Aigner
Case Number: 2025-CP-07–07-01126
This sacred Gullah/Geechee burial area on historic St. Helena Island, SC has been closed to the family members for more than a year.
Do disya fa we famlee and ancestas ya!
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