Government-Local-Town
Rachel B. Noel (1918-2008)
Rachel Bassette Noel was the first African American woman to be elected to public office in the state of Colorado....
Lyles Station, Indiana (ca. 1840- )
Lyles Station, Indiana, is a community of African Americans located about five miles west of Princeton, Indiana, in Gibson County....
Whitesboro, New Jersey (1902- )
Whitesboro, New Jersey was established in 1902 as a town exclusively for African Americans. The idea came in response to...
Marin City, California (1942- )
In 1940, Marin City did not exist. During World War II, however, the W.A. Bechtel Company of San Francisco was...
East Palo Alto, California (1925- )
East Palo Alto, California is a town of 28,155 residents (2010 Census), located on the San Francisco Peninsula between San...
Weeksville, New York (1838- )
Weeksville was a nineteenth century free black community located in what is now the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, New York. ...
Langston, Oklahoma (1890- )
Langston, Oklahoma is one of the few remaining all-black towns located in the former Oklahoma Territory. The town, which opened...
Brooklyn, Illinois (ca. 1823- )
In the early 1820s, eleven African American families, some free, some fugitive, crossed the Mississippi River from the slave-state of...
New Philadelphia, Illinois (1836- )
New Philadelphia, Illinois was one of the most famous of the antebellum all-black towns. Founded by Free Frank McWorter (1777-1854),...
