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Allen Allensworth (April 7, 1842 – September 14, 1914) was an American chaplain, colonel, city founder, and theologian. Born into slavery in Kentucky, he escaped during the American Civil War by joining the 44th Illinois Volunteers as a Union soldier.
Lt. Colonel Allen Allensworth. In 1908, United States Army veteran Lt. Colonel Allen Allensworth and Professor William Payne, Rev. William Peck and John W. Palmer, and Harry A. Mitchell sought to build a town where African Americans could own property, learn, and live the American Dream.
Allensworth is an unincorporated community in Tulare County, California. [2] Established by Allen Allensworth in 1908, the town was the first in California to be founded, financed, and governed by African-Americans. [3] The original townsite is designated as Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park. The 2020 United States census reported ...
Dennis Hutson has a 60-acre farm in Allensworth. The Friends of Allensworth and California State Parks celebrated the history of Allensworth with self-guided tours, food, poetry, music and dance.
One of her possible heroes in the book was Lt. Col. Allen Allensworth, in 1908 founder of an all African American town in Allensworth, California, now a state park, Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park. Beasley wrote, "The late Colonel Allensworth was born a slave, and yet there are few, if any, who have made more out of life and done more ...
In 1908 Colonel Allen Allensworth and associates founded the town of Allensworth as a black farming community. They intended to develop a place where African Americans could thrive free of white discrimination. It was the only community in California founded, financed and governed by African Americans.
A biography of a survivor of American slavery, Allen Allensworth, described his experience at Poindexter & Little, where he was incarcerated in approximately 1855: [2] The next day, under a Negro driver, they were marched out of the slave mart here, double file to the steamboat landing at Memphis and placed on a packet for New Orleans.
Allensworth may refer to: Lt. Colonel Allen Allensworth (1842 – 1914), United States Army officer; Jermaine Allensworth, American basketball player; Allensworth, California, town founded by Col. Allensworth; Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park, California State Historic Park