On May 5, 1910 after four years of searching for a location that would accommodate two hundred families, Oliver Toussaint Jackson established Dearfield, a #black agricultural colony on the arid high plains of Colorado. Jackson managed to gain the support of the Colorado chapter of the National Negro Business League, but the group withdrew their […]
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