March 8: Rapper Lil Wayne is sentenced in Manhattan criminal court to a year in a New York City jail for having a loaded gun on his tour bus in 2007. (AP) Yo, keep your head up, Weezy! one fan shouted from a back row in a Manhattan courtroom as the cuffs went on.
Eatonton is a city in and county seat of Putnam County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 6,480. It was named after William Eaton, an officer and diplomat involved in the First Barbary War. The name consists of his surname with the English suffix ton, meaning town..
Eatonville and its Relation to. Hurstons life was focused in the south, where she both grew up and eventually died in. She was born in Alabama, but was later raised in Eatonville, Florida. Eatonville was the first all-black town in America, made possible by the emancipation of slaves following the civil war.Eatonville was founded by Joe Clarke (Who also become mayor of the town), which Hurston makes allusion to with Joe Starkes.The atmosphere of Eatonville as Hurston was raised laid the foundation for the setting of the novel.n extreme cases, black towns were a form of black seperatism against whites, where black's wished to lead thier own lives completley apart from the whites whom with which they had mutual despise. Black towns often existed in relative seclusion near swamp lands, deserts, sand dunes or along rocky cliffs.