Black People : Surviving, All-Black Towns

Knowledge Seed

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I'm looking for information on as many of the still-existing majority Black towns that were formed around the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century as possible.

So far I have:
Florida
Eatonville

Oklahoma
Boley
Clearview
Grayson
Langston
Red Bird
Rentiesville
Summit
Taft
Tatums
Tullahassee
Vernon

North Carolina
Taylortown

Are there any other historically - and presently - majority-Black towns that I am missing?

What is the history of these places?

Why are they declining?
 
I'm looking for information on as many of the still-existing majority Black towns that were formed around the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century as possible.

So far I have:
Florida
Eatonville

Oklahoma
Boley
Clearview
Grayson
Langston
Red Bird
Rentiesville
Summit
Taft
Tatums
Tullahassee
Vernon

North Carolina
Taylortown

Are there any other historically - and presently - majority-Black towns that I am missing?

What is the history of these places?

Why are they declining?
they are declining because of deep seeded racism,poverty and oppression most have moved on looking for better in hopes of finding change and acceptance,some without the means of family,help or support remain for it's the only home they know and they are too old or sick to move
 
I'm looking for information on as many of the still-existing majority Black towns that were formed around the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century as possible.

So far I have:
Florida
Eatonville

Oklahoma
Boley
Clearview
Grayson
Langston
Red Bird
Rentiesville
Summit
Taft
Tatums
Tullahassee
Vernon

North Carolina
Taylortown

Are there any other historically - and presently - majority-Black towns that I am missing?

What is the history of these places?

Why are they declining?

Boley, Oklahoma.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boley,_Oklahoma

See reasons for decline. Failure of agricultural production. Bankruptcy of railroad of which township was based. Great Depression and decline of Black business. Great Migration and migration of families westward.

My great grandparents were Creek freedmen and among Boley's founders. Alot of my family moved to Tulsa, Stroud, Guthrie and OKC after statehood because they were forced off lands allotted under Dawes Act, except one branch which still owns acreage in Stroud.

My family is able to prove membership and is registered with Muskogee Creek Nation due to the fact they kept property in Striud within the family.

In other Black townships in Oklahoma our people were effectively disenfranchised and unable to sustain a living as farmers and shopkeepers. Many of the Black towns in California were also founded or occupied by Blacks who were farm laborers or farmers who owned smaller or larger tracts of land but over time, as farming economy declined, they moved from rural to urban populations.

A lot of Black towns also benefitted from oil production. Drilling. Refinement. Distribution. This declined in OK, so this is also why many moved to central California. My family included. From the cotton fields to the oil fields.
 
I'm looking for information on as many of the still-existing majority Black towns that were formed around the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century as possible.

So far I have:
Florida
Eatonville

Oklahoma
Boley
Clearview
Grayson
Langston
Red Bird
Rentiesville
Summit
Taft
Tatums
Tullahassee
Vernon

North Carolina
Taylortown

Are there any other historically - and presently - majority-Black towns that I am missing?

What is the history of these places?

Why are they declining?
See Allensworth and the controversy about the Vocational school.

http://www.friendsofallensworth.com/allensworth/allensworth_history.html
 
Boley, Oklahoma.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boley,_Oklahoma

See reasons for decline. Failure of agricultural production. Bankruptcy of railroad of which township was based. Great Depression and decline of Black business. Great Migration and migration of families westward.

My great grandparents were Creek freedmen and among Boley's founders. Alot of my family moved to Tulsa, Stroud, Guthrie and OKC after statehood because they were forced off lands allotted under Dawes Act, except one branch which still owns acreage in Stroud.

My family is able to prove membership and is registered with Muskogee Creek Nation due to the fact they kept property in Striud within the family.

In other Black townships in Oklahoma our people were effectively disenfranchised and unable to sustain a living as farmers and shopkeepers. Many of the Black towns in California were also founded or occupied by Blacks who were farm laborers or farmers who owned smaller or larger tracts of land but over time, as farming economy declined, they moved from rural to urban populations.

A lot of Black towns also benefitted from oil production. Drilling. Refinement. Distribution. This declined in OK, so this is also why many moved to central California. My family included. From the cotton fields to the oil fields.
i'm so happy to hear that you know your family roots,some black people from that era are embrassed or still too angry to discuss or past to their children,but i believe that history should be told of one's family and the struggle so that the children will not become lazy and take things for granted,as many of our youth today,and also for the purpose of not inbreeding ......so you will know the names of your family members some i know personally said they will have to date outside their race not because they want too,but because they don't want to find out later there husband is there cousin,did you read the article about the black lady that end up marrying and having 13 children by her father only when he died family members started speaking about it and it was confirmed,,,she never knew him but he knew she was his daughter from her last name he left when she was a baby....now that's sick and sad,oh her mother had past when she was 8 and she was raised by different family members and everyone knew he was her father when she met and married him at 16,she is in her 60's now, and a aunt said she didn't know how to tell her llike wow but u tell her when he dies
 

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