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'Promised Land': A Historically Black California Town Honors Its Proud, Painful Past — and Fights for Its Future

In 1908, Allensworth was designed by its Black founders as a place where 'African Americans would settle upon the bare desert and cause it to blossom as a rose' before racist policies squashed it into submission. More than a century later, the town is one of about a dozen Black communities shaping the conversation about what reparations might mean in California. ....

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How Allensworth, California Became a Model Community for Black Americans in the Early 1900s

How Allensworth, California Became a Model Community for Black Americans in the Early 1900s
And why activists are fighting to preserve its legacy.
By
Maria C. Hunt
Allen Allensworth.
courtesy of California State Parks
Like many other Black people in the early 1900s, Colonel Allen Allensworth yearned for a place where he could live his best life. So he decided to do something about it: The formerly enslaved man and decorated veteran teamed up with educators and entrepreneurs to found Allensworth, a model California community just for Black people in 1908.
Allensworth was designed as a self-contained community with its own voting precinct, schools, justice of the peace, and constable. It had a Santa Fe train depot that brought visitors and commerce to the town, acres of fertile farmland and assurances of plentiful water to ensure the town’s growth. Allensworth thrived for a time, attracting as many as 300 residents, and then dwindled due to a se ....

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