An In-Person and Virtual Presentation

Monday, April 4th, 2022, 7:00 PM at Carlsbad Museum

Dr. Nelson will present via Zoom from Patterson, CA.

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Dr. Nelson will guide us through the Centennial of the establishment of Blackdom Oil Co., that was launched on December 31, 2019.

Since 2020 was a hectic year, and we have had to pivot our lives a few times to get through this pandemic, we return in #2020Too to begin to understand why we are having a #BlackdomRenaissance in this current decade of the 2020's.

New to Blackdom: Visit our website to begin some basic research on your own, FAQs page, Dr. Nelson's bio, watch a past event video.

Learn more about Blackdom: Read this article. El Palacio Magazine, March 2020, Blackdom in the Borderlands

Learn about The Significance of the Afro-Frontier in American History, US West History, Borderlands, New Mexico, New Mexico Black History, The New Mexico Homestead Act of 1862, Blacks in the West by reading Dr. Nelson's Dissertation.

Join us and feel free to ask questions; challenge Dr. Nelson, share what you know if you are a descendant, encouraging other Blackdom scholars to join, asking for artists to join who want to engage the history, community historians welcome, and if you are a Black American and new to New Mexico join this presentation...

The engagement is wanted! We are testing Facebook Meta’s NEW “Academic class” option for events.

Currently, Timothy is a full-time Lecturer at CSU Stanislaus and is working with a University Press to tentatively release his first book Spring 2023. Afro-Frontier