Editor’s note: This is the eighth part of a series examining what life was like for African-Americans in Liberty County before and during the civil rights movement. This one contains news of the death of a man who has worked to preserve the culture of Africans brought to this area as slaves. Riceboro’s Gullah Geechee civil rights activist and pan-Africanist, Jim Bacote, passed away quietly in his home Sunday. In the Islamic tradition, his body was washed, wrapped, and laid to rest two days later at a simple life celebration of prayer and burial at Greenwood Cemetery in Brunswick.