upcoming Special events

Event honors the victims of the intercostal slave trade. TybeeMLK is working with local government to create memorial makers and public information areas to commemorate those who where forced through the Tybee LAZARETTO. 

Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration of the

end of slavery in the United States.

In 2021 Juneteenth was declared a national holiday. 

 Honoring of the 1960's

protest of beach segregation.

 November is National Native American Heritage Month.

TybeeMLK hosts an educational event that includes a presentation on the Euchee and Guale peoples

that lived here on

Tybee, along with storytelling and a dance demonstration.