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

All 3 chapters, full text (3,220 words). Every chapter closes with its receipts — where the record disagrees, the disagreement is printed, not papered over. The clean EPUB edition, readable on any e-reader, tablet, or phone.