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HS Students Visit and Tour the Weeksville Heritage Center and Historic Hunterfly Road House

Students in the Black Radical Tradition class visited Weeksville Heritage Center, one of the largest free Black communities in pre-Civil War America, which is now part of the present-day Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant. This historic site was named for James Weeks, who purchased the property in 1838 with other African American investors to create an intentional landowning community. Weeksville’s history was rediscovered in 1968 when urbanization threatened to erase the physical memory by destroying the few remaining historic homes.
Weeksville Heritage Center is now a historic site and cultural center in Central Brooklyn that uses education, arts, and a social justice lens to preserve, document, and inspire engagement with the history of Weeksville and the Historic Hunterfly Road Houses.

Story Submitted by History Teacher Donald Okpalugo
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