COLORES | Blackdom | New Mexico PBS

www.newmexcopbs.org - Blackdom is the virtually untold story of Black pioneers Frank and Ella Boyer dream to create a "colony" for Black people in the prairie of Southeastern New Mexico. It was a community of 300 people, "The Only Exclusive Negro Settlement in New Mexico" as the official township letterhead stated. Blackdom existed in New Mexico from 1908 to the mid-1920.
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[@AntoineBoyerAXB]

My name is Antoine Boyer. Frank Boyer is my Great Grandfather and Francis Boyer is my Grandfather!! Much love to you all!!

[@lydiamoreno8754]

Hello, iam doing a report on Frank Boyer, can you tell me what year he ws born and died please. Serval pages conflict.

[@lydiamoreno8754]

Francis not Frank

[@SinaloaClass]

Hello Im Jim Boyer. Sherwood Boyer's son.

[@tonibgood2000]

I live in Las Cruces and its a few minutes. They are running a story in the El Paso Newstation. Many Blessings to you and yours

[@demetrisbrown939]

Hi! I'm Demetris and Francis and Ella were my great great grandparents

[@oldclip70]

Thank you posting. My grandmother is Edmonia Boyer. My great-grandfather is Francis Boyer.

[@mitchboyer3664]

My name is Mitchell Boyer from New Mexico this was my great-great-grandfather

[@charlesboyer1268]

Francis is my grandfather... We're in Detroit though...

[@fallenangel8025]

Christopher Clipper I worked at Blackdom, right down the highway. Reggy Johnson worked for the museum of archeology in Santa Fe.

[@nerdiqueen]

Francis was my great great grandfather. I'm in Detroit as well!

[@msbuttahcup]

This is great. Im granddaughter of Roosevelt great grand of Frank and Ella Boyer

[@FlashyEyes]

This is a beautiful! Never knew of this history. Thank you so much for sharing!

[@emilybolton60]

So Insightful, thank you for sharing our beautiful family history. I never knew so much info on great grandpa & grandma FRANK & ELL BOYER existed. I really enjoyed being around and there for their (son)-MACEO BOYER- my -grandfather. He was a very strong man. Funny, loved going to church, singing in the choir and bringing his grandchildren with him. As a thirteen year old girl, I could hear his Baritone voice over the whole church choir of the st. JOHN’S MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH in San Francisco. In the early fifties, I loved to spend the night with my grandparents, it was like a vacation, except for when grandpa Maceo would light up the biggest cigar then I would run to find some fresh air in the third story bedroom of the house.::But for the LOVE OF -GODS-BLESSINGS-FOR-FAMILY, where would we be. Thanks for sharing. To Love, Cherish always Emily.

[@leslieh761]

I'm just learning of Blackdom from a story in the Sante Fe newspaper in connection with Dr. King's Day in 2020! I have often wondered about blacks out west. Sadly, even now, many of us still wonder and long for a place where we can just be. Boyer (and many others) walked 2000 miles, from Georgia (and other areas of the South) to Kansas and New Mexico ... to find and create such a place. It was a worthwhile dream.

[@BallerFever]

HEY MS.COLLINS!!!! THIS IS JUSTIN!!! THANK YOU FOR BEING A WONDERFUL TEACHER!!!

[@pastorlawrencesanchez81]

WOW, I lived 15 miles away all my life and never knew the history about this Town , so very interesting I wish it was taught in the schools here in Roswell

[@voteeffevansfinancialfreed190]

Other black towns to study and learn from- Rosewood, Slocum, Seneca Village, North Brentwood, Wigsville, Mound Bayou, Glenarden, Primeville North Carolina,,,, Loads of love from South Africa

[@The-Wrights]

Thank you for posting this!!!

[@lisajackson1476]

This is amazing, I hope something can be done with the land....

[@psalm91.777]

That was a beautiful story thank you I never knew I am a native new Mexican myself

[@The-Wrights]

How am I from Roswell, NM and have never been told or educated about this in our "required" NM History classes?!?!? I have often seen the signs for Blackdom from the highway and never understood where it was!

[@greg1030]

Even more than semi ariid plains of SoCal, were select areas of NM my retirement dream. I'm from Long Island, so it's probably odd to see how strongly attracted I am to the SW, or the West in general. The multicolored mesas, scrub brush and trees across vast open plains under a BIG clear sky! So breathtaking. It all draws me like steel to a magnet. Sadly, as with accelerating deadly climate change went my relocations plans up in smoke.

[@topeson]

this is amazing. Igbo folks putting in work. lovely.

[@gilollme]

@123windows456 i cant believe you took the time to comment. you werent the only one who had to

[@tabletalk33]

What would any commentators say to the theory that the only way Blacks are going to live truly free is to found their own independent countries modeled on settlements much like this one?

[@tabletalk33]

***** I'm tempted to just say, fuck you! but what the hell, I'm gonna say this just once. What I "believe" in is the sacredness of private property. What are YOU, some kind of fucking KKK white supremacist? Who the hell are YOU to criticize blacks like Frank and Ella Boyer for wanting their own independent countries as havens for blacks? What's wrong with that? It all comes down to the basic human right to private property. A man should be able to do with this property whatever he wants. A man, or a group of men who have agreed to a covenant, should be able to include or exclude ANYBODY they want. What the fuck else is property good for if you cannot do this?

[@tabletalk33]

***** Fuck you, you piece of filthy shit! You are BLOCKED!

[@ngenzokwamiinduna4392]

@@tabletalk33 ik I'm late but Black Americans have the power to develop Liberia. It's a country in Africa that is awaiting black Americans. Ghana too.

[@PERSNICKETYREBELSHANGO]

I would say that this theory proves true..im all for it ..just wondering if we are truly in the land of the free....sadly we are not even if we own land

[@omniscient7333]

husband and wife went 3 years apart and stayed on script for the dream...we have always been "conservative and family value" by nature.

[@IyaPatsyOriginalEgunlady]

26=8 Forever 13=4 Foundation A Forever Foundation

[@karesajohnson-lucchini4220]

I am amazed by this story, but is no one going to point out that they misspelled W.E.B. Dubois's name? OK. Sorry. I had to say it. This is great. Will share.

[@kimisrael66]

W.E.B SOLD US OUT...HE HELPED GET RID OF MARCUS GARVEY...

[@marissa.r.roybal]

@@kimisrael66not that simple.

[@kimisrael66]

@marissa.r.roybal GATEKEEPERS... they HELP KEEP US IN a STAGNANT POSITION...

[@juanitaboyer192]

My name is Juanita Boyer.. I'm a Boyer by marriage not blood. But Frank Boyer is my children's great great grandfather.

[@auntiebobbolink]

"Unclaimed land of the southwest"??? Seriously? It has been inhabited for thousands of years. Disenfranchised denying other disenfranchised. 😢😡

[@1stladyswagg1]

Descendent of Frank Boyer > by his daughter Edmonia boyer

[@Happy_HIbiscus]

dude, i never seen ya'll in N.M.

[@cgreer9010]

Never even taught in school smh

[@jayden7006]

let me see sum. okok

[@kathleenkingsley4271]

Who did the written transcript for this? Full of errors. I am sorry for anybody who cannot hear and has to have these subtitles... Such a moving story - deserves better.

[@BookwormOnLive]

Glad nm history was only half a semester

[@allahson4967]

Ban racism ban amerikka