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Allensworth, the town Black Californians governed
1908
Tulare County, California
Bobak Ha'Eri · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Allen Allensworth, born enslaved and later the highest-ranking Black officer in the army, founded the only California town built, financed and governed by Black people. The railway moved its stop and the water table dropped, and the town failed, it is now a state park.
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