All-black town
Nicodemus, Kansas (1877- )
Nicodemus, Kansas, was founded in 1877 at the end of the Reconstruction Period. It soon became one of the most...
Rosewood Massacre (1923)
On January 1, 1923, a massacre was carried out in the small, predominantly black town of Rosewood in central Florida....
Dearfield, Colorado
On May 5, 1910 after four years of searching for a location that would accommodate two hundred families, Oliver Toussaint...
Boley, Oklahoma (1903- )
In the early twentieth century Boley, Oklahoma was the largest predominantly black town in the United States. Boley was officially...
Deer Lake Park, Deer Lake, Washington
The Spokesman-Review of March 6, 1910 featured this headline: ‘Spokane Negroes Buy Land Tract to be Developed by Black Labor...
Mound Bayou (1887- )
Mound Bayou was an all-black town in the Yazoo Delta in Northwest Mississippi. It was founded during the spring of...
