ZORA Festival of the Arts & Humanities | Eatonville, FL

Taking place the last week of January each year in Eatonville, Florida, this multi-day, multi-disciplinary event celebrates the life and work of 20th century writer, folklorist and anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston; her hometown, Eatonville, the nation’s oldest incorporated African American municipality and the cultural contributions people of African ancestry have made to the United States [...]

Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts | Eatonville, FL

“She had been getting ready for her great journey to the horizons in search of people; it was important to all the world that she should find them and they find her.” Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, chapter 9. Named in honor of one of the pre-eminent writers of twentieth-century African-American literature, [...]

Florida Black Heritage Trail Guide

The Florida Black Heritage Trail Guide features historic black American sites from Pensacola to Key West and includes profiles and biographical sketches of many distinguished and accomplished black Floridians. Available for free at VISITFLORIDA.com, the guide also includes four self-guided driving tours and features vivid color photographs. Sites in the book include: Eatonville, the country’s [...]

Florida A&M University | Tallahassee, FL

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, commonly known as Florida A&M or FAMU (Pronounced fam-you), is a historically black university located in Tallahassee, Florida. Florida A&M was chartered in Tallahassee in October 1887 as the State Normal College for Colored Students. In the 1950s and ’60s, the historically black college became the first black institution to [...]