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Brooklyn’s Black Trailblazers

Brooklyn’s Black Trailblazers

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The Green-Wood Cemetery, 25th St, NY, 11232
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In celebration of trailblazers who paved the way in art, activism, music, and medicine, this trolley tour spotlights the Black pioneers of Brooklyn at rest in Green-Wood.

You’ll visit the memorials of revolutionary artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, civil rights leaders Grace Nail Johnson and James Weldon Johnson, mathematician Charles L. Reason (the first Black college professor in the United States), and other visionaries who left a lasting impact on the ongoing fight for equality.

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