NewsVine_Mariyam
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While I found this article to be very interesting since I had never heard of Allensworth previously, this is what caused me to post the article, primarily because there are far too many people who post here who deny that this is true and refuse to believe that the same sneakiness is still being implemented today
Allensworth, only African-American town of its kind, still a symbol for 'what we can become'
Biscoe talks about the segregation of Jim Crow laws in the South that inspired many of Allensworth's residents to come to California. But the racism they fled from following the Civil War was in the Golden State, too.
"California didn't have Jim Crow laws, per say," Ptomey said. "All California's race laws were based on the Chinese. A lot of anti-Chinese laws. But they had a sneakier way of doing it (to African Americans) ... They would use covenants and deeds and they would say in your deed, when you bought a piece of property, you couldn't sell it to a person of color. ... Just as bad, just as insidious and just as unfair.
"California didn't have Jim Crow laws, per say," Ptomey said. "All California's race laws were based on the Chinese. A lot of anti-Chinese laws. But they had a sneakier way of doing it (to African Americans) ... They would use covenants and deeds and they would say in your deed, when you bought a piece of property, you couldn't sell it to a person of color. ... Just as bad, just as insidious and just as unfair.
Allensworth, only African-American town of its kind, still a symbol for 'what we can become'