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This undated photo shows the Eatonville sign in Eatonville, Fla. One of the first historically Black towns in the U.S. is suing the local school board to stop the sale of land that is tied up with Florida’s legacy of racial segregation and the state's fast-paced growth nowadays. An association dedicated to the preservation of the town of Eatonville’s cultural history on Friday sued the Orange County School board in Orlando, Florida. The town is perhaps best known through the writings of Harlem Renaissance author Zora Neale Hurston. (Joy Wallace Dickinson/Orlando Sentinel via AP)

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