“The Town That Freedom Built”

Facilitators Jenna Weiss-Berman and Soo Na Pak recorded MobileBooth East’s first field recording for 2008 at Zora’s Place.

Zora’s Place, named after writer Zora Neale Hurston, is located in Eatonville, Florida, the nation’s oldest all-black incorporated municipality, founded in 1887 by a community of formerly enslaved Africans, who dreamed of raising their families off of plantations, in a community of their own choosing – and succeeded.

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