This program was sponsored by

Friends of the Santa Fe Public Library

Community Services Department, City of Santa Fe, New Mexico

“Our highest attended adult program with 197 participants.” ~SFPL February 2022 Report

Historian TIMOTHY E. NELSON, PH.D - Blackdom, New Mexico

👇🏽Link to YouTube recording👇🏽

Blackdom, NM the only incorporated all-Black Town

Dr. Timothy E. Nelson’s multi-faceted work concerns racism, ambition, and the search for opportunity.

These themes were revealed in his 2015 Ph.D. dissertation The Significance of the Afro-Frontier® in American History. Dr. Nelson was born in South Central LA, raised in Compton, during the early 1990s in the wake of race and class-based conflict with the LAPD.

He earned his Ph.D. from (UTEP) the University of Texas at El Paso. Currently, he is a full-time Lecturer of Ethnic and Black Studies at CSU Stanislaus and is working with a University Press to release his first book.