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Description: Exploring Brooklyn city directories to find information about Brooklyn residents' occupations and races.
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Subject: Directories, Race
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2008, 2008 December 30
Description: Minstrel performances in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Race , Brooklyn Eagle, Entertainment
Creator: Olivia Morales Geaghan
Date: 2009, 2009 January 9
Description: 1934 Brooklyn Daily Eagle article about segregation.
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Subject: Race , Brooklyn Eagle
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2009, 2009 January 21
Description: A follow up post about an article on segregation in the Brooklyn Eagle.
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Subject: Race
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2009, 2009 February 2
Description: Using historic directories to research Brooklyn's black community during the Civil War era.
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Subject: Directories, Race
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2009, 2009 March 18
Description: Transcribing three manuscript documents related to slavery in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Race , Black history
Creator: Leslie Shope
Date: 2009 August 20, 2009
Description: For more than three decades, starting in the 1920s, the Mohawk Indians from the Kahnawake reservation near Montreal, Canada, made the Boerum Hill section of Brooklyn their home away from home.
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Subject: Race , Neighborhood history, Native history
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2009 November 24, 2009
Description: The effect of the 1863 New York City Civil War draft riots on Brooklyn.
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Subject: War, Race
Creator: Olivia Morales Geaghan
Date: 2010 July 14, 2010
Description: How an influx of Southern black workers to the racing industry in Brooklyn led to the creation of the First Baptist Church of Sheepshead Bay, thanks in large part to the efforts of Mother Maria J. Fisher.
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Subject: Sports, Race , Sheepshead Bay, Religion
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2010 October 26, 2010
Description: A talk with Brian Purnell describing the activities and impact of the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Events, Race , Black history, Civil Rights
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2010 December 15, 2010
Description: Overview of the publication Black News, which was published from 1969 to 1984 in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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Subject: Race , Periodicals, Bedford-stuyvesant, Black history, Civil Rights
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2011 February 14, 2011
Description: A presentation by Charlie Fourquet of the Hispanic Genealogical Society of New York.
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Subject: Events, Genealogy, Race
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2011 April 24, 2011
Description: A talk with Chris Webber.
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Subject: Events, Race , Black history
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2011 June 22, 2011
Description: Presenting "To Brooklyn and Back - A Mohawk Story" at the Brooklyn Collection.
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Subject: Native history, Events, Film, Race
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2011 November 30, 2011
Description: Tracking slave births in the Records of Kings County on microfilm.
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Subject: Black history, Race
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2012 January 3, 2012
Description: Civil Rights materials in the Brooklyn Collection for the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.
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Subject: Race , Civil Rights, Black history
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2013 August 28, 2013
Description: Guest post by Brooklyn Connections intern. Caribbean immigration to Brooklyn and the annual West Indian American Day Carnival celebration.
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Subject: Immigration, Race , Brooklyn Connections
Creator: Emilia Boothe
Date: 2017 August 31, 2017
Description: The story of Tsuneko Tokuyasu, a Japanese-American woman who got her law degree at Brooklyn Law School in the 1950s.
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Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2018 October 30, 2018
Description: Exploring the history of redlining through a New York Public Interest Research Group packet published in the 1970s.
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Creator: Jen Hoyer
Date: 2019 June 28, 2019
Description: On Juneteenth, an overview of a BPL staff trip to Montgomery, Alabama and that city's Black history, ending with an acknowledgement of "one sided" history across America, including in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Black History, Race , Library History
Creator: Natiba Guy-Clement
Date: 2020 June 19, 2020
Description: A collaboration between archivist Diana Bowers-Smith and historian Dylan Yeats diving into the Montauk Club collection to tease out unexpected stories of Brooklyn history, including those of T. McCants Stewart, Agnes Prendergast, and James Donovan.
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Subject: People, Politics, Women, Race , Black history
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith, Dylan Yeats
Date: 2020 October 5, 2020
Description: Brooklyn-based Italian photographer Francesca Magnani reflects on documenting racial justice protests amidst the covid-19 pandemic.
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Subject: Photography, Race , Black history
Creator: Francesca Magnani
Date: 2021, 2021 December 6
Description: The Brooklyn chapter of CORE had its own journal, Changing Tides: Journal of Brooklyn CORE, and a copy of the 1965 edition is in the Arnie Goldwag Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Collection, in the on-site archives at the Center for Brooklyn History.
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Subject: Black history, Periodicals, Politics, Race
Creator: Gina Murrell
Date: 2022, 2022 March 10
Description: I became interested in the subject of Freemasonry after happening upon several pictures of African American Masons in our Brooklyn Daily Eagle photographs.
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Subject: Black history, Race
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2023 October 10, 2023
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