Learning history is recognizing and understanding patterns that could predict behaviors. Knowledge is power, and anyone with power would do their best to keep it to themselves. It is an act of resistance to learn anyway.
Read moreThe Living History of Allensworth
My grandma told me about the time she lived in Allensworth in the 1960s and how local authorities planned to demolish the town because of arsenic in the water in 1966. She told me Allensworth was founded at the turn of the century by a Black man for Black people.
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