A Black community's history up for sale

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Eatonville, Florida, one of the first Black towns to incorporate following the Civil War, is also one of the few to have survived, but barely. And now, 100 acres of land in Eatonville, near Orlando, are expected to be sold off to developers, a move being fought by local activists seeking to preserve their community. Correspondent Martha Teichner reports.
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@chrisfinch8637 Год назад

This is a community in which I haven’t heard a lot about, until now. They’ve been through so much, and I really hope all peace and comfort is passed down upon them. 🕊️

@markwhite8332 Год назад

What have they been thru, they sold the land out right. Now they want it back for free

@AngryNegativeHistoryProject Год назад

It doesn't make sense to me. Two black guys bought it to segregate their people from racism, having their own school, police, and community, and it makes sense to me looking back at the time it was needed. But eventually one of the guys do part of the land to someone else? And now people are mad that the someone else is building something else there? The neighborhood I grew up in is completely different too. I wish we never renovated or gentrification of things, we should keep everything old as it first stand for historical reasons. It's that what they're mad about?

@return_ofthe_native Год назад

The first time I heard about Eatonville was from Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. I hope the developers listen to the residents of Eatonville, such a rich history, #landback.

@rosendomarco6373 Год назад

Same thing happened to the Native Americans

@mattlenardson6567 Год назад

Yeah look at the turnpike at the Hollywood reservation for the Seminole’s

@veronicanunez2365 Год назад

Why can't the A.A. with means like: Oprah, Tyler Perry, Viola Davis, John Legend, Stevie Wonder, and others put their funds in to save this beautiful town for postwrity and the education of us all. No matter the color of our skin.

@fallenbeforefiona9000 Год назад

Bc they are controlled by them and then they control themselves. They steel themselves against the suffering of their own ppl contented to live separate and sterile of humanity. I don't envy them at all. No one thinks on them anymore and history won't be kind to them.

@El_Chuncho Год назад

Celebrities largely don't care.

@musicartlover963 Год назад

Y can't the greedy developers and their minions stop stealing the land and ruining long standing african american communities

@Dee-mj7ss Год назад

Because Tyler perry Oprah are toon that why.

@MeMeDaVinci Год назад

Posterity...jic anyone is curious

@josefmanga Год назад

I know this area, I live nearby. It's a clear gentrification move by the zoning board. There's already been a lot of development in the area in the last ten years.

@jfayiii Год назад

What development in the area would that be? Keen to learn.

@tracyallen5244 Год назад

I am embarrassed that as a resident of Florida that I did not know anything about this amazing town and community. Shame on us for letting this happen.

@nghtwtchmn129 Год назад

Remind me who wanted desegregation-was it white people?

@markwhite8332 Год назад

Tracy, they willingly sold the land, now they want it back for free. 🤔🙄🙄

@kirkgoshert7876 Год назад

You're embarrassed and shamed from watching this? WTF.

@jaydibernardo4320 Год назад

I'm embarrassed as an American that this type of injustice is being done. 😢

@brooklynbred1460 Год назад

You should be embarrassed of Florida regardless

@v.a.993 Год назад

This happened across the south.

@dalededen Год назад

Thanks for sharing this story!

@brooklynbred1460 Год назад

Because you care so much 😂.

@louisereinhart1149 Год назад

Martha has the most amazing voice. I could listen to her all day.

@kirkgoshert7876 Год назад

No matter how ridiculous she comes across?

@louisereinhart1149 Год назад

@@kirkgoshert7876 I think she does a great job. As do all of the Sunday Morning contributors.

@kirkgoshert7876 Год назад

@@louisereinhart1149 Yikes.

@brooklynbred1460 Год назад

You're disgusting. All you heard was a voice. Not what was said. Racist

@jfayiii Год назад

She could make Stalin sound like a victim. Biased presentation beyond belief.

@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288 Год назад

Can a Historically Black College step in to expand their university into Eatonville? That would be educationally congruent with the first philanthropists' mission for the land. Is there a historically black college in Florida with a healthy endowment that can afford the land? What about Howard? They probably have the money. So weird that a school board is now asserting its right to be a real estate developer?? Florida is coming up with new autocratic tricks every day, and using school boards to get this ugly work done. Pay attention, USA, and vote these types OUT up and down the ballot. Plan for 2024 voting now. Stay safe everyone! 💙

@myurbangarden7695 Год назад

Or FAMU

@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288 Год назад

@@myurbangarden7695 I don't know Florida A&M well enough. Do they have a healthy endowment? At the end of the day, most real estate development is about money. A responsible entity giving them money could make them go away, then turn back to the town and do right by the residents. The good news is that college students generate economic activity: little restaurants, rental housing for off campus living, etc. Hope it works. 🗽

@jfayiii Год назад

It IS interesting that a commercial rebuff is so firmly in place, yet no alternative plan is offered up. What's really going on? If local leadership and national awareness followed up with action after their words, this would be a non-issue, as the town would be thriving.

@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288 Год назад

@@jfayiii Perhaps small town mayors, town councils, and school board presidents feel overwhelmed when confronted by real estate developers? More than overdue for the USA to take a closer look at the real estate industry nationwide, an ugly industry that has proved to be irresponsible in the past. We might get a handle on inflation in housing costs and reduce homelessness as beneficial byproducts.

@trackgrad08 3 месяца назад

FAMU grad here. We have FAMU Law about 10-15 minutes south of Eatonville in Downtown Orlando in Parramore (another historically Black area undergoing urban renewal and gentrification). Parramore was decimated the moment they ran I-4 through there. Please look up the history of the law school to understand your wishful thinking of expansion. HBCU placement will not change urban renewal plans of billionaires put in place 20-30 years ago. Overtown in Miami, Liberty City & many other areas in Orlando & Miami are fighting this but understand there are European billionaires in the back pockets of city officials making this happen.

@sandyburch3010 Год назад

Leave Eatonville alone!! I live 2 miles from here, leave it alone orange county! So much history...

@lawrencecicatelli5552 Год назад

This is terrible..., however, why isn't the developer or potential developers named ??? Name them.

@leenewsom7517 Год назад

Southern Poverty Law Center definitely needs to step in.

@bedminstereric Год назад

They are a left-wing hate group. One of their attorneys/antifa members was recently arrested in Georgia

@watermelonlover745 Год назад

This is a bipartisan issue. They should not mess with the history of Eatonville.

@naturallypink6357 Год назад

Ok. All of you folks, entertainers, athletics, philanthropists. Can you do something and take a look at this? Not saying you are not philanthropic in your efforts, but Eatonville needs your help.

@louhawk559 Год назад

CBS MUST DO A STORY ON ALLENSWORTH CALIFORNIA A BLACK TOWN WHICH IS NOW A MONUMENT.. THANK YOU

@isartoraplatz Год назад

The Bible states that Israelite cities would be Monuments it’s time to Open our eyes 👀 Same in Utah stolen Land of the Y’ute Indians Who were aboriginals...

@michaelsamuel9917 Год назад

Why not get some students from a local to volunteer and do a RU-vid type story? It could start their career into Journalism broadcasting etc?

@Jacob-seek-Jesus-123 Год назад

The original philanthropist & original trust made it specifically clear at the original sale of the property at the very beginning that the only reason or purpose of any sale of the property is to be used for the education for African Americans. The property should go back to its original course & be developed for the use & purpose as either an African American private school for women or an elementary charter school-private school for African American children or an African American church school, Let’s face it, why take everything from African Americans society, look at the stats-young black men are lucky to alive after age 25, look at the drugs, crime, education levels, broken homes, education was key to the original sale, is that so difficult to understand?

@nghtwtchmn129 Год назад

Desegregating the schools was supposed to solve the education problem. Are you saying that it was a mistake?

@1freethinker Год назад

@@nghtwtchmn129 That's not the point.......Both things are right......

@nghtwtchmn129 Год назад

@@1freethinker As long as it is okay to have schools set aside for whites, too.

@Jacob-seek-Jesus-123 Год назад

@john d, are you kidding me? Schools for whites too? You were born into & raised into & live in a majority populated white society or white privilege. Not one memory or environmental upbringing excludes you, why because your automatically accepted. Look at it this way, suppose your in a hospital with a terminal illness & you need an organ or even blood to live, does it really matter whom you get it from? Or suppose you become blind, does it really matter what race your grandchildren are when they hug you & tell you that they love you? Listen friend why do you harbor much hate?

@markwhite8332 Год назад

@@nghtwtchmn129 💯, that would make us racist if we had a wht only school, oh wait we tried that and they put national guard on us

@kimberlyreynolds4646 Год назад

When I lived in Central Florida, I attended church in Eatonville.

@queenladydi8629 Год назад

I live in Colorado and watched this story. I pray that you all keep your land plus MORE! If there was any way I could help believe me I would 😢

@sirpainter1 Год назад

I think many old small towns have issues with developers. Look at I-25 from Ft. Collins to Denver. There used to be many farms. Now I think there is only 1 abandoned farm house left. I live on the West Side. Of Laramie, between the tracks & the river. The oldest part of the whole town. 2 years ago the railroad took out the tracks that went to Centennial & gave the land back to the city. Which they sold & now there are 6 duplex apt buildings surrounded by houses built in the early 1900's. I live many blocks south of there in a 1870 log cabin. Thankfully there is no open land in my hood!

@AngryNegativeHistoryProject Год назад

Humans build and then tear down. Just imagine if humans didn't tear down anything.

@sirpainter1 Год назад

@@AngryNegativeHistoryProject Your missing the point. Nothing is getting torn down here or there. It's like that song. Pave paradise & put in a parking lot.

@AngryNegativeHistoryProject Год назад

@@sirpainter1 if nothing is getting torn down, what are they taking about?

@sirpainter1 Год назад

@@AngryNegativeHistoryProject Apparently you did not watch or listen to the vid or even read what was in the description. Like this. 100 acres of land in Eatonville, near Orlando, are expected to be sold off to developers, a move being fought by local activists seeking to preserve their community. I think your 65 subs should question your ability of The Fall of Mexico(Tenochtitlan (Broken Spears book review)). Your wasting my time!

@dondoyle8474 Год назад

For God’s sake do what’s right give the land back!!!! When does the dollar become worthless, NOW! Do what’s right we have lost that concept over the years sadly 😞

@markwhite8332 Год назад

They willingly sold the land, now they should get it for free. Where is billionaire Oprah, LeBron, kevin hart , the land is for sale

@gusgus8134 Год назад

Tyler Perry!...buy that property and make more wonderful, ground breaking movies, and t.v. shows for ALL of us to love!

@nghtwtchmn129 Год назад

BLM co-founder and "trained Marxist" Patrisse Cullors could add this community to her real estate portfolio.

@watermelonlover745 Год назад

The point is they don't want local economy and history to be messed up by outside money

@nghtwtchmn129 Год назад

@@watermelonlover745 Fair enough, as long as whites can have their own spaces too.

@gregpaspatis9425 Год назад

Tyler Perry indeed, not to mention Jay Z also.

@michaelsamuel9917 Год назад

Now you're talking, there's a lot of potential for economic growth and preserving the historic town at the same time.

@michaelscot4816 Год назад

How can we help? 💜

@nicoleoriol8523 Год назад

I am in Eatonville. We need the Orange County Public School School Board to come to the table to BEGIN a dialogue. Right now they are ignoring this issue and hoping we will go away. Guess what? We're not! We need help to force them to the table before the end-of-the-month deadline. We need affordable housing developers and attorneys to offer their services so that we can provide alternatives that meet the needs of the current community. We need help investigating the current developments that "somehow" got through without paying the customary development fees and costs to Eatonville. Let's start here!

@woodenbeast9337 Год назад

Sorry but this sounds fishy.

@sunii4264 Год назад

Eatonville citizens reach out to billionaires like Jeff Bezos, or other philanthropists. Send 100 letters & proposals to those people. Don't give up!🙏💜

@jreese8284 Год назад

Just a little context: dozens and dozens of towns all over this country are no more. Plenty of reasons why. It's well to remember all the histories.

@NotYoung3592 Год назад

imagine if it was an all white town that needs saving.....ha.

@cross75man75 Год назад

Had to imagine, since they never face these issue, in the first place they would have been able to buy the land outright.

@j887276 Год назад

Although I 100% disagree with reparations because there are no slaves or owners nowadays, I do understand the commitment this land was given. I hope they win.

@MeMeDaVinci Год назад

If future development of the land, where it's original purpose has been long gone, what is the preservation group going to do with it? There seemed to be something missing in this story for my understanding.

@pscar1 Год назад

Same thing happening in Atlanta.

@syamkumarkaturi9761 Год назад

Sell gold and silver price is falling down..we can mine gold and silver from mines....earth

@nghtwtchmn129 Год назад

But the majority-white Buckhead neighborhood that wants to secede from Atlanta is "racist."

@AngryNegativeHistoryProject Год назад

Every neighborhood gets redone. The whole country.

@RyanWeaver-fp5kq 2 месяца назад

Arts, press, academia… industry… governance…. It’s all very real.

@phoebesmith9089 Год назад

Smh makes me sad and angry. Race schism, and its affects on our culture and society… Don’t seem like it’s ever going to end or it’s ever gonna get better. And I’m scared for the future.

@RyanWeaver-fp5kq 2 месяца назад

The first house I:WE bought was just around the corner from Eatonville… central florida and the bidders of GA, AL, LSU?

@shadowstar3432 Год назад

Florida is now flat out weird. I used to like it here ...now I hope what scientists say is true. That it will end up under water. I feel as a latino, that I'm caught between hatred cross fire.

@Rnja4410 Год назад

The sharks are waiting

@robertvandalsem94 Год назад

As much as I believe they need to save that last piece of land I also believe they need some sort of development in that community. That's a dying community unless they developed something to attract people.

@howardjuliewiley5629 Год назад

Dave Chapelle might be able to help with that? He did it to his own town.

@RyanWeaver-fp5kq 2 месяца назад

Eatonville… NSB… St. Augustine… plantations and beyond… health systems and finding better.

@RyanWeaver-fp5kq 2 месяца назад

Dollar stores and other rural areas… what exists in those towns… ? USPS, libraries…. Schools… stake holders…. History and context matters… FeWE… health, climate and tools… gentrification and reality of humans and systems and Disney and I -4… smoky hollow? But, also…. Understand Oklahoma… Tracy Chapman and well beyond…. AI has been around a bit now… just sayin…

@kricketbx 2 месяца назад

Ummmmmmmmmmmm they skipped over the fact that" Joe Clark, was Zora Neal Hurston's dad and he was a Mayor of Eatonville..

@warrenjoseph9339 Год назад

THANK YOU 🤍🌹

@RyanWeaver-fp5kq 2 месяца назад

Think about Altoona… or various other communities… Schenectady. Blue Island… defining and redefining of the actual and contexts… the time and space and eco systems…. Moving from fragmented into fractionated and understandings of fracking and minerals and agriculture of peanuts and blood banks… larger scales and feedback loops and intersections…

@djjohnson7519 Год назад

Where's the Land Trusts in Orange County? 😢

@psirvin9677 Год назад

You guys have a Fight on your hands... God Bless

@RyanWeaver-fp5kq 2 месяца назад

Schools and busses and “bussin”…. Geeze, I’m old…

@pamelamays4186 Год назад

Hopefully gentrification won't win.

@Dearthvader2 Год назад

How can any place in this country ever be gentrified? White people created this society. I dare you to find a society that black people created. Just 1. IT DOES NOT EXSIST.

@nghtwtchmn129 Год назад

White people moving out is "white flight," but white people moving in is "gentrification."

@watermelonlover745 Год назад

All the rich people from up north are moving here and destroying local Florida economies

@markwhite8332 Год назад

Gentrification is a racist word used against wht ppl who use their hard earned money to fix and improve areas

@heinz-haraldfrentzen1261 Год назад

Watch the story again, and pay attention to two facts, pointed out, but seemingly ignored by other commenters. At 4:08, the commentator clearly states, Eatonville never has owned the land. At 5:54 the commentator clearly states that the plots were sold off in agreement with the school board, AND the trustees. So please explain how a community that never had ownership, or a legal claim to a piece of property, and the subsequent sales were done in agreement with the owner (OCPS), buyer, and trustees of the estate, now suddenly can say, it's our land, give it back?

@sarahsunshine18 Год назад

I understand this to be a legal argument, but entirely misses the point and reality of what's going on.

@heinz-haraldfrentzen1261 Год назад

@@sarahsunshine18 Exactly what do you specifically mean, that a group of people can claim rights to property that was never legally theirs because they wish to establish a community that will be based on the race and ethnicity of the residents. This, along with several other types of "equity initiatives" that are trying to be introduced into our society, will not serve to bring equality and reconciliation, but will in fact, be viewed as retribution, and will further divide our communities .

@triedntrueiam Год назад

The man bought the plots. The town became incorporated. Why? So, they could have voting rights! Ain't never going to be a kumbayah with people who can't see how these fake worldly laws are prejudiced from their inception to create caste systems; wherein the lawmakers and their business friends can rip off everyone else legally. This has nothing to do with God's law which is why you fight against true equality and equity in everything you do. The school board performed the same functions as the half-breed natives of the country and many others in making agreements with the enemy. So again...no kumbayah....

@dorothytinman Год назад

The land was intended to be used for African American education. That was part of the original agreement when the land was sold to the school board.

@corneliusmakin-bird7540 Год назад

@@heinz-haraldfrentzen1261 100% hit the nail on the head!

@ellenmuseum Год назад

Young people leading!!!

@linzierogers5024 Год назад

Do American history books mention this?

@lisarose7084 Год назад

This is Florida. They ban or burn history books that teach uncomfortable truths.

@auntiemeemaw3885 Год назад

No and the books are missing so much more because it's told from a voice not reflective of any people of color.

@kevinlayne6645 Год назад

The land, currently, in question is not owned by the Town of Eatonville. It belongs to Orange County.

@triedntrueiam Год назад

Slick lawyers, greedy speculators and paperwork issues....The world is full of fraudulent gains and people. It's March 31, I wonder what is gonna happen with the land today....🙄🤔😑

@elviraviegas7522 Год назад

My dear friend, please don't allow them to sell that place. Let them study. Don't hurt their feelings. Please don't trouble them. Let them learn in whatever school or college. Don't allow trouble get you. Let there be peace and love among us.

@RyanWeaver-fp5kq 2 месяца назад

Lakeside and beyond… consider… aboriginal and beyond… real world over time and space. It’s all a lot.

@steveconn Год назад

Developers always win. Just get the artifacts you like to a good museum and hope for the best.

@syamkumarkaturi9761 Год назад

Sell gold and silver price is falling down..we can mine gold and silver from mines....earth

@isartoraplatz Год назад

Hahahahaha One saving grace Florida sits on Limestone which means Soon most of the land Will be underwater..👈🏼 It’s worthless and the People who run Florida 🌴 Know this it’s sinking.. “ sinking sand” 👁 I’d say people should be Moving out and running For their lives... 21 million people and “ No Way Out”..🐝

@jejolyrancher Год назад

Wow this is crazy smh

@islandgirl8914 Год назад

#LANDBACK 🖤🖤🧡🖤🧡🧡

@NomadNotMad Год назад

2:04

@florinest Год назад

DeSantis' Florida.

@watermelonlover745 Год назад

Actually this didn't happen until Biden got in

@gregpaspatis9425 Год назад

In the 2022 election in Orange County, Fla. Governor DeSantis lost 53 percent of the popular vote.

@Schlabbeflicker Год назад

A contract like that with racial stipulations would be illegal today, which would render that clause of the contract null and void. Eatonville doesn't own the land, period, and if they want it they should go through the proper eminent domain proceedings and be prepared to pay a fair market value for it. It's also disgusting that residents are "worried about being outnumbered". By whom? Members of different races? Everyone has the right to live wherever they want. You don't GET to have racially pure communities in modern America. The degree of endemic racism Eatonville seems to tolerate is honestly shocking. They need to learn to be a more diverse and inclusive community.

@cross75man75 Год назад

Go tell that to all the all white communities all across America or does your view only apply to black people?

@Healthy_Stuff279 Год назад

It seems to be the smarter thing to participate in economic development, else have economic blight. Keeping up with the economy and surrounding development is a good idea.

@markpayne6803 Год назад

S O L D

@ritchie9641 Год назад

Give them the land! Then we can have “Crime Stoppers, Grand Theft Auto” 🤣

@slrsouth64 Год назад

Watch out your racism is showing

@OleLockAndKey Год назад

Who cares

@wowbigman22011 3 месяца назад

If you don’t care, you will be care ‘em to to comment in first place.

@franktalley Год назад

What part of "Never" owned it in the first place do you not understand? And please, tell me again why it should just be given to them. Always something for nothing, they had decades to raise money and interest but waited until the last minute to whine about it.

@darlasutton6458 Год назад

Wow I guess equity is only a one way street

@jankristen4951 Год назад

What did they bring it here from Africa ? one pocketful at a time , ?

@Gabster1990 Год назад

What are you talking about?

@jankristen4951 Год назад

I'm so oppressed , I need to keep my memories of oppression, so todays world can see how oppressed I am .

@bedminstereric Год назад

Wouldn’t this community benefit from greater diversity? Diversity is our strength.

@cross75man75 Год назад

Please go and tell that to all the exclusively white communities.

@msvoyeur Год назад

@@cross75man75True!!!!

@jfayiii Год назад

@@cross75man75 name one advertised as such

@cross75man75 Год назад

@@jfayiii They don't advertise silly they just are. Or do you think all those exclusive gated communities that cover America from cost to cost are full of black people?