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In 2023, Landmarks Illinois added Brooklyn to 2023's list of Most Endangered Historic Places in Illinois, listing among its threats Brooklyn's decline in population and economy, high unemployment and low tax base, its lack of recognition for its history, and its sale of parcels to railroads that separate the community from the riverbank. [23] [24]
The African-American experience in Belleville, where Wyatt was lynched, was vastly different from that of his hometown of Brooklyn. Black residents were the majority in Brooklyn and "intimately wed to the town's power structure". [9] Belleville in contrast had few black residents and a civil rights movement in its earliest stages. Despite being ...
Brooklyn is an unincorporated community in Schuyler County, Illinois, United States. Brooklyn is located on Illinois Route 101 , 7.5 miles (12.1 km) west of Littleton . References
At the end of the American Revolution, one in three black inhabitants in Brooklyn were enslaved, a statistic that inevitably drove a wave of activism in the years to come.
Archaeologists Dig in Brooklyn, IL for Signs of Slave-Freeing Founder Priscilla Baltimore (in en). Riverfront Times. Archived from the original on 2021-02-18. Retrieved on 22 August 2020. Author: Unknown, but public-domain.
Location of East Brooklyn in Grundy County, Illinois. Location of Illinois in the United States Coordinates: 41°10′22″N 88°15′58″W / 41.17278°N 88.26611°W / 41.17278; -88.26611
The following properties are listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Brooklyn. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, which coincides with Kings County, New York. The locations of National Register properties ...
This decision, according to Bluestone, "introduced a strain of discontinuity between the Lefferts homestead and its place in Flatbush history". [13] In 1918 and in 1920, the Fort Greene chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution opened the house as a museum [ 14 ] and installed a “revolutionary” cannon from Governor's Island in the ...