Genre: photographs / Resource Type: still image / Names: Allensworth, Allen, 1842-1914 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Letter from Al Green, Chairman of the Allensworth Advisory Committee, to Anita Hagen, editor of a paper titled Insight. Apparently Insight published a story claiming that the town of Allensworth was a faded dream. Mr. Green explains to her why he thinks that this is not true, that Allensworth is a diamond, and invites her to join those advocating for Allensworth.
Date:: 1976
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Allensworth was a town founded in 1908, with the idea that African Americans could own property, learn, thrive, and live the American Dream. It was named by Lt. Colonel Allen Allensworth. It had a school system by 1910. With the death of Colonel Allensworth in 1914, the town experienced extreme losses, coupled with severe drought and decreased crop yields. Many residents left the area following World War I. The town was memorialized as a state park in 1974, and hosts events annually to preserve its history.
Date:: circa 1913
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Oscar Over, resident of Allensworth, became the California's first black justice of the peace in 1914.
Date:: [1908-1918]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: After his retirement from the military in 1906, Colonel Allen Allensworth founded the town of Allensworth in 1908, with the idea that African Americans could own property, learn, thrive, and live the American Dream. It was named by Lt. Colonel Allen Allensworth. It had a school system by 1910. With the death of Colonel Allensworth in 1914, the town experienced extreme losses, coupled with severe drought and decreased crop yields. Many residents left the area following World War I. The town was memorialized as a state park in 1974, and hosts events annually to preserve its history.
Date:: [1908-1918]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Sixteen school children and two male adults pose for a group photograph in front of a wooden building.
Date:: [1908-1914]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: San Francisco residence of Colonel Allen Allensworth and Mrs. Allensworth.
Date:: [circa 1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: San Francisco residence of Colonel Allen Allensworth and Mrs. Allensworth, with the Colonel standing on the porch.
Date:: [circa 1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Allensworth was a town founded in 1908, with the idea that African Americans could own property, learn, thrive, and live the American Dream. It was named by Lt. Colonel Allen Allensworth. It had a school system by 1910. With the death of Colonel Allensworth in 1914, the town experienced extreme losses, coupled with severe drought and decreased crop yields. Many residents left the area following World War I. The town was memorialized as a state park in 1974, and hosts events annually to preserve its history.
Date:: [1908-1918]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Birds eye view of Fort McDowell at the time that Colonel Allen Allensworth was posted there.
Date:: [circa 1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Allen Allensworth was born into slavery in Kentucky, served as a Union soldier, became a Baptist minister and educator, and was the first African American to reach the rank of lieutenant colonel. He founded numerous churches, and in 1908 founded Allensworth, California, the only town in the state to be founded, financed and governed by African Americans, now a State Historic Monument. (Wikipedia)
Date:: 1962
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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