Eatonville's Hungerford School Property and the Politics of Race and Place in the 21st Century

This roundtable will explore the social, political, and legal struggle for control of the Hungerford School property from a variety of perspectives. What legal claims do Eatonville residents have to ownership of the former school property? What role can historians, working with new data-mapping and visualization technologies, play in informing public debate? What strategies can community planners employ to bring economic revitalization to historically segregated  communities like Eatonville while preserving their cultural identity as Black Spaces? What are the lessons of Eatonville’s preservation campaigns, from the anti-road-widening efforts of the 1980s to the Hungerford School ”#LandBack” movement of today, for economically marginalized communities of color across the nation?

Chair:  Lyman Brodie, Executive Associate Dean, College of Arts & Humanities, University of Central Florida

Discussants: 

Adrienne Burke, AICP, Esq., Community Planning Collaborative, LLC

Julian C. Chambliss, Professor of English, Val Berryman Curator of History, Michigan State University

Scot French, Associate Professor of History/Director of Public History, University of Central Florida

Walter Greason, Professor and Chair of History, Macalester College