Theo Troy Black Leader in Baja

Theodore Troy founded an agricultural colony for African Americans in Baja, California, in 1917. Troy was one of many African Americans who responded to the U.S. lynch mob violence and discrimination and segretation of that time by emigrating to Mexico. Said Troy, as he set out for Baja to create his colony, "I am going to a land where... there are no Jim Crow laws to fetter me, (and) I am not denied opportunity because of the color of my skin." His settlement in the hills, midway beteween Tijuana and Ensenada, had 200 people for a time during the 1920s. The colony lasted until 1960. The last family, that of John Littlejohn moved into the motel Littlejohn he had purchased in Ensenada. His was one of upwards of a half dozen hotels and motels in Northern Baja that were African American owned during the mid-20th century.

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