Black towns

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/17/2023
  

  Zora Neal Hurston's Town is one of Many Imperiled Historic Sites

  by Nick Tabor

  Eatonville has temporarily prevented a large development that many residents feared would lead to gentrification and the erasure of Black history in the Florida town, but it is just one example of the difficulty facing efforts to preserve sites of African American history. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/1/2022
  

  A Historic All-Black Oklahoma Town Wants Reparations to Rebuild as a "Safe Haven"

  “Oklahoma’s Black communities are overdue,” said Mayor Currin, 38, a fourth-generation Tullahassee resident. “Tullahassee has always been in a fight, always fighting to exist and always fighting to thrive."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  12/14/2020
  

  Ella Augusta Johnson Dinkins, Champion Of Zora Neale Hurston's Hometown, Dies At 102

  Zora Neale Hurston was the most famous resident of Eatonville, Florida, but Ella Augusta Johnson Dinkins spent decades organizing and building the town, then fighting to preserve the historical legacy of African American towns from the post-Reconstruction era.