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    • ZORA!® Festival
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      • Episode 1 – Storm Clouds on the Horizon
      • Episode 2 – Orange County Crosses the Line
      • Episode 3 – Way, Way Back in the Day, “The Race Colony”
      • Episode 4 – “What It Is,” More about The Race Colony
      • Episode 5 – The Rise of Eatonville
      • Episode 6 – The Establishment of the Hungerford School
      • Episode 7 – A Symbiotic Relationship: The Town of Eatonville & the Hungerford School
      • Episode 8 – Long & Strong: The Tradition of Civic Pride in the Town of Eatonville
    • Season 2 – Engagement
      • Episode 1 – Perfect Timing?
      • Episode 2 – “Back in the Day” — Orange County, Florida during the last 25 years of the 20th Century
      • Episode 3 – “Fait accompli”/AKA “The Accomplished Act”/AKA “What Was the REAL Deal”
      • Episode 4 – Centers of Energy: Eatonville & Maitland
      • Episode 5 – Maitland City Hall
      • Episode 6 – Getting Organized: Monday, December 7, 1987, 7:00 PM
      • Episode 7 – The Compromise Candidate
      • Episode 8 – Mr. Dorman Comes to Eatonville
      • Episode 9 – The People’s Response
      • Episode 10 – Formalizing the Passion: The Incorporation of the Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community
      • Episode 11 – Securing Counsel/ AKA “A Tricky Proposition” in Orange County, FL
      • Episode 12 – “Girl Power”– In the Forefront: The Women of Eatonville, Maitland, and Orlando
    • Season 3 – A Year of High Anxiety
      • Episode 1 – The Rocky Road Ahead
      • Episode 2 – Perspective: What Eatonville Was ACTUALLY Facing
      • Episode 3 – Walter Kulash — On behalf of the Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, Inc. (P.E.C.)
    • Listen to all podcasts
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  • Please Invest
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    • Help Secure Our Future

Daily Archives: February 13, 2021

Building Wakanda in Central Florida

Eatonville BlogBy digigorFebruary 13, 2021Leave a comment

What does the Town of Eatonville have in common with the fictitious land of Wakanda in Disney’s Black Panther movie? Wakanda was a comic book depiction of an entire society made by Black people for Black people. Eatonville is an actual town established by Black people for Black people. It was founded in 1887 by…

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