AfroFrontierism: Blackdom (1900 - 1930)
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#NegroColonyInAlbama | Atlanta Constitution November 7, 1897

Negro Colony in Alabama | Cedar Lake had a formal opening yesterday: Decatur. Ala, November 6 -(Specials)- this afternoon witnessed the formal opening of Cedar Lake, the negro colony promoted and backed by Mrs. Lillian K. Ray, the wealthy English capitalists. Application was made for a city charter and a provisional board elected. Several hundred negroes were present and seemed to be in earnest with movement. The colony comprises of 800? acres of wheat and tobacco lands beautifully located on…

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#ErnestineWilliams | Roswell Daily Record November 5, 1999
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#HōmstedClass Proffit William | [TWP 14S - RNG 24E / SEC4] December 5, 1910

Accession Nr:164422   Document Type:Serial Patent   State:New Mexico   Issue Date:12/5/1910   Cancelled:No

PROFFIT, WILLIAM D         |     1/8/1921      789581 | NMNew Mexico PM014S - 024ES½NE¼

PROFFIT, WILLIAM D | 1/8/1921 789581 | NMNew Mexico PM014S - 024ES½NE¼

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#MittieMoore | “Guilt Not Proven” Roswell Daily Record November 1, 1917
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Guilt Not Proven. | Not proven was the result of the city against Mittie Moore in Judge Parsons court this afternoon. As an evidence of what City Attorney John E. Clayton and the police force is up against this case is a good example. Sunday night at the home of Mittie Moore, a dive on South Virginia two pistol shots were fired. This morning the city attorney and cheif-of-police visited Hampton Lee, a negro in the emply of the Elks Saloon. Lee stated that Mittie had fired two shots at one John Wilson, that both shots passed through Wilson’s coat and that he stood by and watched Wilson take the gun away from Mittie. This afternoon when placed on teh witness stand he denied all these facts, saying that he was blocks away when the shooting accurred. So it is that Mittie is free again.

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“Guilt Not Proven” Roswell Daily Record November 1, 1917

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#MittieMoore | "Moore Case Postponded," Roswell Daily Record October 31, 1917
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Mittie Moore Case Postponded

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The case against Mittie Moore, charged with discharging fire arms within city limits, was postponed until afternoon at 2 o’clock

Wednesday, October 31, 1917, Roswell, New Mexico

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#AmericanAlchemy2 | Roswell Daily Record, May 24, 1920

“Boyer was a cook for J.J. Hagerman, who established the Pecos Valley Line, when Clovis was being planned and assisted when the survey of the city was made.”

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

At the turn of the 20th Century, Frank Boyer had the vision to build an all-Black county in Southeastern New Mexico while working as a cook for J. J. Hagerman, one of the wealthiest power brokers in the state of New Mexico. Hagerman donated forty acres of land north of Roswell and Captain Joseph Lea (Confederate Army) founded the Goss Military Institute named for the Confederate Colonel. Boyer’s time as a cook for Hagerman was a time of apprenticeship on how to turn stolen Indigenous desert land into personal sovereignty.

by Dr. Timothy E. Nelson ©

Roswell Daily Record, Monday, May 24, 1920 pg3

Roswell Daily Record, Monday, May 24, 1920 pg3

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