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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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Bruce's Beach Is Just One Example of How Blacks Illegally Lost Land in California — The Sacramento Observer


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The disturbing story of Los Angeles County’s Bruce’s Beach Park location of the first West Coast seaside resort for Black beachgoers and a residential enclave for a few African American families – has been making headlines around the country.
One hundred years ago, Manhattan Beach city officials seized the Bruce’s beachfront property from an African American couple, Charles and Willa Bruce, citing an “urgent need” to build a city park. But the area was not developed for recreational use after it was forcefully taken from the Black owners.
In addition to the Bruce’s land, the city grabbed about two dozen other properties from African American families along the city’s Pacific shore using eminent domain laws. ....

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Donation of African Americana to UCSD opens window on Black life here in the Old West

Donation of African Americana to UCSD opens window on Black life here in the Old West
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