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Tag: Weeksville

New York City’s First Black Principal Sarah Tompkins Garnet Began Her Career in Williamsburg

by Geoff Cobb March 4, 2019March 6, 2019

  March is Women’s History Month when we celebrate the achievements of North Brooklyn’s greatest women. Sarah Tompkins Garnet was not only the first black woman to serve as a […]

The 5th of July: Abolitionist Williamsburg

by Lucie Levine July 5, 2018July 5, 2018

The Weeksville Heritage Center, a multidisciplinary museum dedicated to preserving the history of Weeksville, a self-supporting 19th century free black community in what is now Crown Heights, has a “5th […]

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