“The negroes of Cuba started a revolt last week, which rapidly assumed such serious proportions that the United States found it necessary to sent the gunboat Nashville to Guantanamo, where the Paducah and Eagle were already.”

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Deming Headlight, May 31, 1912

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Illuminated Baseball T-Shirt- Women's (Limited Edition)

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Support Blackdom Thesis with the Illuminated Baseball T-shirt, our first edition design, in a soft vintage wash. Our women’s tee is lightly fitted. Also available in men’s.

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Third Cool Attempts to Kill the Colored Bartender

Henderson, who has charge of the buffet during the day shift eats at the lunch counter, but his meals are prepared for him in the kitchen. He objected to his feed last night and decided to go right to headquarters to find out about it and make his kick. He entered the kitchen and directed his remarks to the chef, in language that was more forcible than polite and aroused the ire of the czay [sic] of the range who told him to get out or he would throw him out.

#TheCoon then went to manager Smithers with his complaint and the latter told him to stay out of the kitchen as he had no business there The Bartender was hungry and decided that the advice was poor. He secured a plate and returned to the kitchen and was fired out again as the cooks were not going to stand to have any negroes come in there and tell them how to run their business.

Las Vegas Daily Optic May 28, 1907

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Las Vegas Daily Optic May 28, 1907

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Negroes to Establish Big Colony in Kansas

Committee Dickers with Railroad for purchase of 20,00 acres at a Low Price

Topeka, Kan.--Negroes from all over the United States soon will establish a colony exclusively for negroes, in western Kansas.

A committee is now dealing with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad for purpose of 20,000 acres of land, with an option on another equal area, on which to establish the proposed colony.

M. B. Brooks, editor of the Hutchinson Blade, a negro paper; Thomas Owens and N. H. Jelitz of Hutchinson and T. W. Gangway of Pratt are the organizers of the plan for the colony. They have had assurances of 800 negroes in all parts of the country to move to the new colony if the deal for the western Kansas land can be made.

Negroes now living in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago St. Louis, Cincinnati, Washington and several southern cities have joined the peoples civil league the name of the organization.

It is not proposed to manage the colony on any socialistic or cooperative plan. The committee simply expects to purchase the land from the railroad and hold it in trust for the members of the organization until the final payments are made the railroad company owns many thousands of acres of good land in the western part of the state. It sells the land only, to actual settlers on the installment plan. The land is offered at a low price and may be paid for in five, ten or twenty-year installments.

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Only negroes who are now actual farmers, or those in cities who want to get back to the land will be permitted to take land in the colony. The only exception in a townsite of 160 acres on which a town is to be established as a trading post for the colony. The Civic League does not propose to establish this trading post to handle any business except that of looking after the land.

The deeds to the land will require that the settlers can never sell their land to other than negroes, and the prohibition is to apply to the lots on the townsite. It is not expected that any white man will ever spend the night within the confines of the colony. The charter for the town is to provide that only negroes can hold office. The school districts with the colony are to be controlled entirely by negroes, only negro teachers will be employed and negro children allowed to attend, even tho the negro schools might be the nearest to a white family living just outside the colony limits. All church organizations admitted are to be given ten acres as a site and only one church of each denomination is to be allowed within the colony.

Kansas already has a negro colony. It was established nearly thirty years ago in Graham county. The Union Pacific Railroad gave a colony of negroes several thousand acres of land in the eastern edge of the county. The township and the town they established was named Nicodemus.

It is only a hamlet several miles from the railroad. The negroes are all farmers but a few who maintain stores and shops at Nicodemus. There are no rulings against white men in Nicodemus, but as a matter of fact the negroes control the township and run things to suit themselves. Several county officers have been elected from Nicodemus. Nearly all the negroes own their own land, and many of them have fine homes. Their children attend the state agricultural college and are prosperous, advanced farmers. The negroes are actually more progressive and more careful farmers than many of the white farmers of the neighborhood and actually make more money than do many white people.

This colony was established simply by a group of negroes of eastern cities gathering up their friends and moving out. There was no idea of self government.

Rochester Weekly Republican May 29, 1919

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Back in the centuries the shops of stores you know started something on the order of public bartering places. 

What has taken their place is the modern store where you can buy what you like just when you want it. You don’t have to buy a year’s supply all at once as of old. The storekeeper keeps it for you, and you buy only what you need as you need it.

The merchants and the manufacturer and advertising have brought this useful state of affairs about for your convenience you don’t even have to go to see everything and every shop to make your choice nowadays.

The advertisers relieve you of this trouble by bringing their goods to you in the advertisements before the days of the development of advertising, you would have had to visit a dozen or a score of places, weigh and choose, and then not be sure you had made the best selection. Advertising has made it possible to know just what will interest you and be of value to you.

Just think what this means; you order now without worry or trouble because advertising tells you all about the things you want to buy before you buy them.

Read the advertisements and think about them with this in mind. They are there to serve you.

Roswell Daily Record Monday, May 31, 1920

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Roswell Daily Record, Monday, May 31, 1920 pg3

“During World War I, three of Boyer’s sons served in the United States Army. During World War II he had eight grandsons in service, six in the Army and two in the Navy. All of them became non-commissioned officers, and two still are in service, one in the Army and one in the Navy.”

Las Cruces Sun-News, Sunday, March 30, 1947

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B0FH5RVYTQ Unabridged - Narrator is Timothy E. Nelson - Author

You can order Dr. Nelson’s First Academic Paperback directly from the publisher. He will earn a higher royalty. Or contact your local library and ask them to order a copy.

Published: July 2023. Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest. Nelson has uncovered new primary source materials that suggest Blackdom has a newly discovered third decade. Many believed that Blackdom was abandoned. During Blackdom’s boom times, in December 1919, the Blackdom Oil Company shifted town business from a regenerative agricultural community to a more extractive model.

Forward by Herbert G. Ruffin II, Syracuse University Associate Professor of African American Studies. ISBN 9781682831755

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