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There is something about a library... Even tho this one is tiny and simple I bet the community that gathered to build it were proud of what it meant for them. Thanks to my cousin @quiltedsister for sharing the photo #allensworthcalifornia #centralcalihistory

Josephine Leavell Allensworth (1855– 1938) was an African-American musician, music teacher, and activist. She co-founded #AllensworthCalifornia #LightBrightAndDamnNearWhite Born 1855 in Trenton, Kentucky, #JosephineLeavell was an accomplished pianist, organist and music teacher before marrying prominent Baptist minister, Rev. Allen Allensworth, in 1877.  From 1886 to 1906, Josephine lived with her husband, one of the few African American chaplains in the U.S. Army, and two daughters in remote postings, from Fort Supply, Indian Territory, Oklahoma to Fort Harrison, near Helena, Montana, with many postings in between.  During these years, Josephine made an elegant home, performed as organist during her husband’s chapel services, and raised her daughters, according to Delilah Beasley’s Negro Trail Blazers of California (1919), in the ways of “the old school of (Negro) aristocracy.” Following the Colonel’s retirement in 1906, Josephine and her husband led the founding of Allensworth, an all-black settlement about 40 miles north of Bakersfield, California, now preserved as a State Historic Park.  In Allensworth, Josephine helped found the Women’s Improvement League, sat on the school board, and donated the property for the Mary Dickinson Memorial Library, the public library named for her mother.  After her husband was killed in 1914 by a reckless motorcyclist in Monrovia, Josephine remained in Allensworth until 1922, then moved to Los Angeles to live with her daughter Nella, son-in-law Louis Blodgett, (the most successful black contractor in the city), and their children, until her death in 1938. #AllenAllensworth #BlackHistoryofMay #BlackHistoryofMay3 #ThisWeekInBlackHistory #WeLoveBlackMusicians #WeLoveBlackPioneers #WeLoveBlackActivist #TodayInBlackHistory

Who was Josephine Leavell Allensworth? #JosephineLeavellAllensworth (1855– 1938) was an African-American musician, music teacher, and activist. She co-founded #AllensworthCalifornia #LightBrightAndDamnNearWhite Born 1855 in Trenton, Kentucky, #JosephineLeavell was an accomplished pianist, organist and music teacher before marrying prominent Baptist minister, Rev. Allen Allensworth, in 1877.  From 1886 to 1906, Josephine lived with her husband, one of the few African American chaplains in the U.S. Army, and two daughters in remote postings, from Fort Supply, Indian Territory, Oklahoma to Fort Harrison, near Helena, Montana, with many postings in between.  During these years, Josephine made an elegant home, performed as organist during her husband’s chapel services, and raised her daughters, according to Delilah Beasley’s Negro Trail Blazers of California (1919), in the ways of “the old school of (Negro) aristocracy.” Following the Colonel’s retirement in 1906, Josephine and her husband led the founding of Allensworth, an all-black settlement about 40 miles north of Bakersfield, California, now preserved as a State Historic Park.  In Allensworth, Josephine helped found the Women’s Improvement League, sat on the school board, and donated the property for the Mary Dickinson Memorial Library, the public library named for her mother.  After her husband was killed in 1914 by a reckless motorcyclist in Monrovia, Josephine remained in Allensworth until 1922, then moved to Los Angeles to live with her daughter Nella, son-in-law Louis Blodgett, (the most successful black contractor in the city), and their children, until her death in 1938. #AllenAllensworth #BlackHistoryofMay #BlackHistoryofMay3 #ThisWeekInBlackHistory #WeLoveBlackMusicians #WeLoveBlackPioneers #WeLoveBlackActivist #TodayInBlackHistory

DDH: Daily Dose of History. ••• "In 1906, Allensworth became the first Black lieutenant colonel. In 1908, he retired and took a caravan of four other men and their families to California. There, he and his wife, Josephine Leavell Allensworth, established Allensworth, California. On September 14, 1914, Allen Allensworth was killed by a reckless motorcyclist in Monrovia, California. He was 62 years old.” ••• To read more of this article, follow the link in my bio, or check out DDH on @webuyblack and @4theculture_now. Curated by @mr.ramirothewriter Please be sure to like, comment on, and share my social media posts and articles pertaining to DDH. Thank you. #blackhistory365 #allenallensworth #blackunionsoldier #firstblacklieutenantcolonel #blackpioneer #allensworthcalifornia #blacksettlement #Blackness #blackwomen #ddh #dailydoseofhistory #4thecultureapp #anarticleadaykeepstheignoranceaway #black #blackwriter #blackwriters #blackblogger #blackbloggers #blackhistory #followme #supportblackwriters #blackwritersmatter

#BlackAugust Political Power comes from Land‼️ Allen Allensworth escaped slavery and on August 3rd, 1908 Colonel Allen Allensworth purchased 800 acres of land in Tulare County along the Sante Fe rail line and filed the site plan for the first African-American town, Allensworth, California. He planned for the settlement to be governed, financed and operated by black people. In 1976 it was transformed into a 240-acre state park. The black settlers of Allensworth built homes, laid out streets, and put up public buildings. They established a church, and organized an orchestra, a glee club, and a brass band. After the Army, Allensworth and his family settled in Los Angeles. He was inspired by the idea of establishing a self-sufficient, all-black California community where African Americans could live free of the racial discrimination that pervaded post-Reconstruction America. his sister Lila escaped with her intended husband to Canada by the Underground Railroad; and the older boys William, George, Frank, Levi and Major were sold downriver to plantations in the Deep South, which continued to buy workers from the Upper South. Mary Jane was his only sibling who grew up in Kentucky and married there. Allen Allensworth would escape slavery and join the union army. • • • • https://newafrikan77.wordpress.com/2016/08/04/black-august-1908-former-escaped-slave-colonel-allen-allensworth-founds-new-afrikan-settlementtown-called-allensworth-california/ @haki_kweli_shakur • • • • #AllenAllensworth #freedomcolony #AllensworthCA #allensworthcalifornia #BlackAugustResistance #BlackAugustMemorial #TheStruggleisForLand #Fast #Study #Train #Fight #BAM #BAR #FreeTheLand #landowner #landownership #Landowners #MakeAmericaPayReparations #reparations #realestate #businessproperty #farmland #farmlandscape #landforsale #california #visitca #visitcalifornia #losangeles #goingbacktocali