INTERVENTION TO THE UNITED NATIONS SUB-COMMISSION
ON THE PREVENTION OF DISCRIMINATION AND PROTECTION OF MINORITIES
50th Session
Barrister Majid Tramboo
The Intervention to the Sub-Commission concerned the situation of the Gullah people of the southeastern United States, a distinct ethnic group numbering some 500,000 persons speaking the Creole language, Gullah, which has inhabited the Lowland coastal regions of the U.S. since the early capture and enslavement of Africans on the North American continent.  The intervention makes special note of the efforts of the Gullah-Geechee Sea Island Coalition, under the direction of Marquetta L. Goodwine, to protect the culture from the processes of forced assimilation and outside development presently leading to the dispersal and disappearance (ethnocide) of this unique American culture.


Text of Mr. Tramboo's intervention will be posted shortly.