Conservationists are energized by rightwing attacks on African American studies to preserve once prosperous Weeksville<\/p>\n
Conservationists in New York are ramping up research and preservation efforts of a historic Black community that had all but disappeared, illuminating what some experts say is an \u201cantidote\u201d to ongoing rightwing efforts to keep African American studies out of classrooms.<\/p>\n
Weeksville, New York, located in present-day Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant, had been a center of Black excellence since its founding by a dock worker named James Weeks in 1827. A copy of the New York Times from 1855 advertised \u201cbeautiful building lots at Weeksville\u201d for between $130 and $200 cash under the heading \u201cFor Sale To Colored People.\u201d It was a thriving community of free Black people who escaped slavery in the south.<\/p>\n
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