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Land Was Citizenship. A House Was A Ballot.
Black history podcast: Weeksville Brooklyn, the free Black town with land ownership, doctors & schools that America forgot. From James Weeks buying ballots with dirt to Susan Smith McKinney becoming New York's first Black woman doctor, we explore how 521 free Black people built an independent town in the 1830s—and how the 1863 Draft Riots nearly burned it all down. Then 1966: four wooden houses spotted from a plane proved Weeksville was real. Welcome to Sankofa Chronicles, where we go back and fetch what they erased. Subscribe for hidden Black history every week.
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