AfroFrontierism: Blackdom (1900 - 1930)
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Published: 1920Publisher:Crisis Publishing CompanyOriginal from:University of California, BerkeleyDigitized:November 11, 2014#AHAperspectives | #WHA2020

Published: 1920

Publisher:Crisis Publishing Company

Original from:University of California, Berkeley

Digitized:November 11, 2014

#AHAperspectives | #WHA2020

ARTESIA, New Mexico. Near here is a settlement of Negroes—a little town called “Blackdom”, consisting of farmers who have wrenched every bit of good out of our bitter soil. They are quiet, good citizens and molest nobody. They have had little chance for the cultural things of life and I believe they would welcome an opportunity to take your papers and magazines. Of course, they may already know about them. They have a little school and a church.

Ruth Loomis Skeen

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#BlackdomRenaissance | Roswell Daily Record, June 18, 1920

“Colored Cook Gets Booze With Some Kick”

“Lincoln Oil Ready to Drill”

Roswell Daily Record, Friday, June 18, 1920 pg2

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#NewJersey | #Whiteboro Tyrone Daily Herald June 17, 1902

Will be Located New Jersey and Be Called “ Whiteboro.”

Cape May, N.J., June 17.--Henry C. White, the last negro to sit in congress, the member from North Carolina in both the 55th and 56th congresses, is the head of a syndicate which has purchased from Senator Robert E. Hand 967 ½ acres at Buriegh, near the Pennsylvania and Reading railroads to found a negro colony from North Carolina. The name of the town is to be Whiteboro. 

Each colonist is to buy a house on the installment plan and is to be given ten years to pay for it. This is to be an agricultural colony, and on the same plan as the Jewish colony at Woodbine, this county, founded by tho Baron de Hirsch fund.

Tyrone Daily Herald June 17, 1902

Tyrone Daily Herald June 17, 1902

#BlackColonizer | "A Race War," June 17, 1892

A special from Guthrie, Okla., on the 13th, says:

There is great excitement in this city night occasioned by two criminal assaults by negroes upon white women today. A negro lad named Holley assaulted Mrs. Charles Moore, the wife of a freighter, who was away from home at the time. He was arrested and a mob surrounded the jail, threatening to lynch him. The negroes of the town claimed that Holley was innocent, although be bad confessed his guild to the sheriff. A race war now seems imminent.

Friday, June 17, 1892, Logansport, Indiana

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#BlackColonizer in Brasil | Tyrone Herald June 13, 1895

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St. Louis, June 12 --Mathew Lancaster, an intelligent and well-educated negro has been quietly corresponding for some months with persons controlling large tracts of land in Brazil and has announced his purpose of colonizing American negroes upon these lands. Mr. Lancaster leaves for Brazil next Monday, armed with strong testimonials and financial backing. The project is favorably received by the negroes here.

Tyrone Herald | June 13 1895

Tyrone Herald | June 13 1895

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