Born into slavery in Kentucky, Allen Allensworth was forbidden from learning to read. He not only taught himself anyway, but he escaped, fought for the Union, became a chaplain for the legendary "Buffalo Soldiers," and rose to become the highest-ranking Black officer of his time. ​But he didn't stop there. In 1908, he founded Allensworth, California—a town built as a haven for Black Americans to live and govern themselves, free from the racism of the era. This is a piece of American history that
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