America's Lost Black Towns Vol. 3 — Taken by Law & Concrete (Kid-Friendly Edition — Interactive Edition)

Three towns taken by laws and bulldozers — and one that got its land back. Seneca Village was a neighborhood of Black families who owned their homes in New York City, until the city took their land to build Central Park and pretended they had never been there. At Bruce's Beach in California, a family built a beach where Black families could swim and rest — the city took it away, but almost a hundred years later the county gave the land back to the family. And in Alabama, Africans who had been brought across the ocean on a slave ship built their own town, Africatown, and told their stories so well that when scientists found the sunken ship many years later, it proved the stories true. Every chapter ends with The Receipt — one true line to remember — and a note telling you exactly where the story came from.

Inside the Interactive Edition: the complete book — all 3 chapters, full text · Recorded narration by Marcus (the Digital Black Voice narration voice) — 12.5 minutes, every chapter read aloud · Four layers per town: Then/Now, the Document, Map/Deeds, and Oral History with its carriers named · A chronological timeline that jumps to the chapter behind each date · A 10-question educator quiz drawn strictly from the text · Every chapter closes with its Receipts — the documents, counts, and oral traditions the story stands on · For educators: a TEKS correlation sheet for this volume is available with the Lost Black Towns educator materials — audited against the finished text and the adopted Texas standards, claiming only what the sheet claims. These materials make classrooms eligible, not district-adopted.