Por: Orlando Sentinel Crime March 27, 2023
The Southern Poverty Law Center has filed a lawsuit against Orange County Public Schools over a controversial Eatonville land deal set to close on Friday. With the lawsuit, which was filed last week in circuit court, the Alabama-based civil rights organization seeks to stop the $14.6 million sale of 100 acres of land that once housed the Robert F. Hungerford Normal and Industrial School, a Black private school built in the late 1800s at a time... + full article
Orlando Sentinel USA Crime March 31, 2023
The development team that was set to close this week on a purchase of 100 acres of land in Eatonville has backed out of the sale, in a victory for residents who felt the project planned for the former Hungerford school site would have endangered the historic Black town’s... + más
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Orlando Sentinel USA Opinion March 12, 2023
The history of Eatonville’s Hungerford School is rooted in resilience, but soiled by greed and lies. This area’s leaders have one more chance to do the right thing. They should take it. Because this is bigger than the 100 acres that remain of a place founded by emancipated... + más
Orange district’s Hungerford land sale violates Eatonville residents’ civil rights, SPLC says | Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel USA Nation March 09, 2023
If the Orange County school board continues with its plan to sell 100 acres of land in Eatonville amid public outcry, it could violate the civil rights of the historic Black town’s residents, leading to gentrification and displacement, a letter written by an attorney with the... + más
Controversial sale of former Hungerford land in Eatonville terminated by developer | Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel USA Crime March 04, 2023
Seventy years ago, the Robert F. Hungerford Normal and Industrial School — and by extension, the town of Eatonville — was at a crossroads. After a two-year court battle eventually decided by the state Supreme Court in 1952, Orange County Public Schools, then called the Board... + más
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Orlando Sentinel USA Crime February 12, 2023
In an impassioned speech Tuesday night, Eatonville Mayor Angie Gardner called on her fellow town council members to vote against a proposal that would have cleared the path for a massive 100-acre development in the historic Black town. Gardner, others on the council and longtime... + más
Eatonville residents fight against planned sale, development of former school site | Orlando Sentinel
‘An exciting day’: Eatonville students eligible for new college scholarships | Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel USA Nation February 08, 2023
In a 4-1 vote, Eatonville’s town council denied a request to make changes to its comprehensive plan that would have allowed a massive project to continue on the land that once housed the historic Robert F. Hungerford Normal and Industrial School. The project, led by Winter... + más
Orlando Sentinel USA Crime October 03, 2022
Eatonville students who graduate from Orange County’s public high schools could be offered college scholarships under a new initiative modeled after the scholarship program hotelier Harris Rosen began nearly 30 years ago in another of the county’s low-income communities.... + más
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