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Allensworth, the freedom colony : a California African American township / Alice C. Royal, with Mickey Ellinger and Scott Braley ; photographs by Scott Braley.
Van Pelt Library F869.A43 R695 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Royal, Alice C.
- Series:
- BayTree books
- Baytree books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American pioneers--California--Allensworth--History.
- African American pioneers.
- African Americans--California--Allensworth--History.
- African Americans.
- Historic sites--Conservation and restoration.
- Community life.
- History.
- Allensworth (Calif.)--History.
- Allensworth (Calif.).
- Allensworth (Calif.)--Social life and customs.
- Community life--California--Allensworth.
- African Americans--California--Allensworth--Biography.
- Allensworth (Calif.)--Biography.
- Historic sites--Conservation and restoration--California--Allensworth.
- Historic sites.
- Allensworth (Calif.)--Pictorial works.
- California--Allensworth.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 141 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books, [2008]
- Summary:
- In 1908. Colonel Allen Allensworth founded a small town in the dry alkaline soil of California's Central Valley. A high-ranking U.S. Army officer and chaplain who had escaped from slavery, he envisioned a utopian community where African Americans could thrive. The town flourished between 1908 and 1918, when some three hundred families relocated there to establish a self-sufficient farming community with its own school, church, businesses, and municipal government. Its existence became and is to this day a symbol and an inspiration to African Americans around the country. In 1976, Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park was created to restore the buildings and preserve the history of this exceptional community.
- Contents:
- My Acrostic Thoughts on Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park / Alice C. Royal 10
- First Families 13
- Putting the Vision into Practice: The Thriving Years 35
- Community Life: "We Never Felt Deprived" 61
- The Hard Times Set In 79
- The Lean Years 91
- Creating the Park 98
- From Zero to Sixty: The Building Boom 113
- Allensworth's Second Century-Mothers, Let Your Children Go 122
- Epilogue: The Last Word / Alice C. Royal 135
- Appendix A Allensworth Pioneers / Betty Rivers 137
- Appendix B Advisory Committee Members 139.
- Notes:
- "Baytree books"
- ISBN:
- 9781597140911
- 1597140910
- OCLC:
- 185031095
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