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Orange, Florida in the 1940s: 1 through 2 of 2

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  1. Work In An All-Black Community
    date January 1, 1946 to January 5, 1946map Orange, Floridatags Zora Neale Hurston, Eatonville, life

    Zora Neale Hurston was an African American woman born in the first all African American town in America.  She wrote countless accounts of different things she saw and experienced and this is very important because what she experienced was completely different than what most other African Americans experienced.  In the short story “Turpentine” she accounts when she walks down to see where the...

  2. An Act of Heroism
    date June 2, 1948map Orange, Floridatags Susan Wesley, Rollins College

    Greeting incoming Freshman at the start of the 1943-1944 year Miss Susan Wesley assisted in the girls unpacking, settling in, and adjusting to life away from home. A dorm mother to many girls who attended Rollins College Susan Wesley was an employee for the college a total of twenty-four years. The girls depended on Susan to help them through tough times, nurse them to health when sick as well as be...