In Hurston's description, what kind of community is Eatonville?

In Zora Neale Hurston's essay "How It Feels To Be Colored Me", Hurston describes Eatonville, Florida, the town she grew up in, as a safe and self-governing town populated entirely by African-Americans. Hurston believes Eatonville is like this because she notes Eatonville as being a "colored town" where she didn't have to deal with persecution by white people since there were no white people in Eatonville. Hurston concludes "How It Feels To Be Colored Me" by noting that people should not focus on race, but should focus on each other's similarities.