Return to Blackdom - Southwest Contemporary March 2019

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Gregory Waits sits before his laptop at a cafe in downtown Santa Fe, examining a schematic of Blackdom’s original town plat. It’s a familiar formation, with a public square in the center and gridded streets surrounding it. “They were on this property that was sort of devoid of racism because of its remoteness,” he says. “Of course, Blackdom itself is part of Jim Crow in many ways. They didn’t let them settle anywhere near Roswell.”

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Waits hasn’t given up on Blackdom, either. He continues to work with Reverend Abukusumo on the monument project and has recently connected with Los Alamos historian Dr. Timothy E. Nelson, who helped uncover evidence of Blackdom’s oil boom.