Official web site for CA State Parks ... Come Home to Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park Throughout 2008 California State Parks has celebrated the 100th anniversary of the ...
Allensworth is an unincorporated area in Tulare County, California, United States. It was a town founded in 1908, with the ideal that African Americans could own property, learn ...
Official web site for CA State Parks ... Allensworth Centennial Celebration. Gazing out at the land upon which he would establish the self-governed black township of Allensworth ...
To the family of Cornelius Edward Pope: We deeply regret we cannot be with you during this time of sorrow. We will always treasure the times we have shared with Ed Pope.
An Online Reference Guide to African American History. Quintard Taylor. Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History. University of Washington, Seattle
A former slave and former chaplain for the black 24th infantry teamed up with a gifted black teacher named William Payne to create a colony of opportunity.
Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park is the only California town to be founded, financed and governed by African Americans. The small farming community was founded in 1908 by Lt ...
In 1880 Allensworth moved to Los Angeles, where he organized a company to help Blacks migrate to California. Over the next six years the town of Allensworth, in Tulare County ...