Eatonville, Florida, is known as "The Town that Freedom Built." It became one of the first Black-incorporated municipalities in the United States, and it's one of the last to survive into the present day. The town became home to Zora Neale Hurston and a thriving school established with the help of Booker T. Washington to educate the Black youth. Now, developers are eager to buy the school property and change the historical city, clouding the vision of those who founded Eatonville. The town council will determine the fate of the school property on Feb. 7.
"Eatonville will be forgotten, bought out, shut out unless someone who has the staying power is willing to fight for it," said community member John Anderson.
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