In 1908, the town of Allensworth, California became the first town in the state to be founded and funded by African Americans. Ed Pope was a one-time resident of the town and a passionate advocate ...

Friends of Allensworth docent Emmett Harden in the classroom of the original Allensworth schoolhouse built in 1912 at Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park near Earlimart on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019.

Allensworth, California’s first all-Black town established in 1908, has not been an exception. Once a thriving farm community inspired by the dream of self-determination, Allensworth has ...

ALLENSWORTH (CBS SF) -- California was once the promise land for a former slave who settled a town where his dreams of freedom would become a reality. That place still exists. Its called ...

Out of the post-Reconstruction rubble, Col. Allen Allensworth, a retired African American army chaplain, pieced together a dream. In 1908, Allensworth, a prominent Los Angeles resident ...