Hidden Histories: Black Stories of the Lower East Side NYC

Hidden Histories: Black Stories of the Lower East Side NYC

Hidden Histories: Black Stories of the Lower East Side NYC

Five Points

Draft Riots

The First Free Black Settlement in North America:"The Land of the Blacks"

First Housing Project in NYC

Second Burial Ground

Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

St. Augustine Episcopal Church

Underground Railroad at African Society for Mutual Relief (42 Baxter Street)

Cooper Union's Great Hall

New York African Free School

The Google Map shows the above sites -- can you visit all the sites in one day?

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