Freedom towns: A vast but largely forgotten movement of Black self-rule

Freedom towns: A vast but largely forgotten movement of Black self-rule

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If you sit on the bench outside Natural Beautiii Haircare in Eatonville, Florida, and stare across East Kennedy Boulevard, you'll see the grassy lot where Zora Neale Hurston's house once stood. Hurston was a novelist and a folklorist, a champion of the culture that African Americans created for…

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