It had the highest rate of property and business ownership in any black urban community at the time. The town also had an independent newspaper called The Freedman’s Torch, one of African-American first newspapers and the first integrated school in Brooklyn, Colored School No. 2 https://t.co/3QIhn2fCdD
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#Brooklyn paper 1866 https://t.co/kn3NeYdR33 Quoted tweet from @AfricanArchives: It had the highest rate of property and business ownership in any black urban community at the time. The town also had an independent newspaper called The Freedman’s Torch, one of African-American first newspapers and the first integrated school in Brooklyn, Colored School No. 2 https://t.co/3QIhn2fCdD
#Brooklyn paper 1866 https://t.co/kn3NeYdR33

