Blackdom, New Mexico: The Significance of the Afro-Frontier, 1900-1930 Nelson Timothy E.
Blackdom, New Mexico: The Significance of the Afro-Frontier, 1900-1930 Nelson Timothy E. Blackdom, New Mexico, was a township that lasted about thirty years. Nelson situates the township's story…
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Blackdom, New Mexico: The Significance of the Afro-Frontier, 1900-1930 Nelson Timothy E.
Blackdom, New Mexico, was a township that lasted about thirty years. Nelson situates the township's story where it belongs: along the continuum of settlement in Mexico's Northern Frontier.Dr. In this book, Timothy E.
"Blackdom" started as an inherited idea of a nineteenth-centuryAfrotopia. Nelson illuminates the set of conscious efforts that helped Black pioneers develop Blackdom Township into a frontier boomtown. The idea of creating a Blackdom was refined within Black institutions as part of the perpetual movement of Black Colonization.
In 1903, thirteen Black men, encouraged by the 1896 Plessy decision, formed the BlackdomTownsite Company and set out to make Blackdom a real place in New Mexico, where they were outside the reach of Jim Crow laws.Many believed that Blackdom was simply abandoned. However, new evidence shows that the