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Then……Now• On August 15, 1887, a group of black

men voted for the incorporation of Eatonville in Orange County, Florida

• Named after Captain Josiah Eaton of Maitland

• Many freed slaves moved there for work

• Central Florida’s first railroad was built there

• Oldest incorporated all-black town

• Zora Neale Hurston grew up there!

• 2004 Census recorded 2,387 people, 89% African-American

• Known for showcasing arts and literature

• First magnet school: Robert Hungerford Preparatory High School

• David “Deacon” Jones, defense player, was born there!

• America was in the Great Depression

• FDR was President

• There was a severe drought in the west

• Harlem Renaissance was taking root in New York

• The era of Babe Ruth

• The radio was a popular form of entertainment

• Their Eyes Were Watching God was published!

• “Jim Crow” laws

• Originated in 1830 by minstrel show

• Plessy vs Ferguson (1896)- “Separate, but Equal”

• Personal Narrative: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/narrative_baldwin.html

• Interactive Activity: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/themap/map.html

• Usually avoids it in her fiction

• She grew up with Jim Crow

• Her experiences with Jim Crow:

• Doctor Visit

• Hotels and Restaurants

• Population burst- urban development

• A civil rights and literary movement in the 1920s-1930s

• Birth of Jazz Age

• African-American Identity

Merry-Go-Round

"Colored child at carnival:Where is the Jim Crow sectionOn this merry-go-round,Mister, Cause I want to ride?Down South where I come from White and coloredCan't sit side by side.Down South on the trainThere's a Jim Crow Car.On the bus we're putin the back--But there ain't no backTo a merry-go-round!Where's the horseFor a kid that's black?----Langston Hughes (Garraty 872)

• http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/arts/teaser.html

Work Cited

• Images from yahoo.com

• Town of Eatonville: www.townofeatonville.org

• America in the 1930s: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/front.html

• PBS- The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/

• Biography- Black History: http://www.biography.com/blackhistory/harlem-renaissance.jsp

• Langston Hughes’ “Merry-go-Round”: http://165.29.91.7/classes/humanities/amstud/97-98/harren/HUGHES.HTM