AfroFrontierism: Blackdom (1900 - 1930)
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#BlackdomTownsiteCo | "50 Years Ago" Friday, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 14, 1960

50 years ago: A Letter from Blackdom, 20 miles south of Roswell and near Dexter, states that Blackdom is the only exclusive Negro settlement in New Mexico, and that the colored people have taken up 10,000 acres in homesteads and will install a pump plant, The Community has built a commodious school house.

1910 / 50 years ago….

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#NegroColonizationScheme | Washington [WA] Herald, September 10, 1903

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Santa Fe., N. M., Sept. 10.--The Blackdom Townsite company was incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000. The purpose is to establish a colony of negroes from the Southern states in Chavez county, the name of town to be Blackdom.

Washington Herald September 10, 1903 pg 1

Washington Herald September 10, 1903 pg

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#OrganizationOfBlackdom | Kokomo [IN] Daily Tribune, September 10, 1903
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Organization of Blackdom

Santa Fe., N. M., Sept. 10.--The Blackdom Townsite company was incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000. The purpose is to establish a colony of negroes from the Southern states in Chavez county, the name of town to be Blackdom.

Kokomo Daily Tribune September 10, 1903 pg 7

Kokomo Daily Tribune September 10, 1903 pg 7

#RefugeForNegroes | Portage [WI] Daily Register, Thursday, September 10, 1903
#TheBlackdomTownsite |  Madison, WI

#TheBlackdomTownsite | Madison, WI

Santa Fe., N. M., Sept. 10.--The Blackdom Townsite company was incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000. The purpose is to establish a colony of negroes from the southern states in Chavez county, the name of town to be Blackdom.

Portage Daily Register, Thursday September 10, 1903

#BlackdomInNewMexico | The Spokesman [WA] Review, Thursday, September 10, 1903
#TheBlackdomTownsite | Spokane, WA

#TheBlackdomTownsite | Spokane, WA

DENVER, Col., Sept. 9.-- a special to the Republican from Santa Fe, N.M., says The Blackdom Townsite company was incorporated today with a capital stock of $10,000. The purpose is to establish a colony of negroes from the southern states in Chavez county, the name of the town to be Blackdom.

The Spokesman Review Thursday, September 10, 1903

#ColonyForNegroes | Latrobe [PA] Bulletin September 10, 1903
#TheBlackdomTownsite | Latrobe, PA

#TheBlackdomTownsite | Latrobe, PA

Santa Fe., N. M., Sept. 10.--The Blackdom Townsite company was incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000. The purpose is to establish a colony of negroes from the southern states in Chavez county, the name of the town to be Blackdom.

Latrobe Bulletin | Thursday, September 10, 1903