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Historic reminders

Old buildings and cemeteries serve as touchstones to the early times of local African-Americans

Long Island and Queens are home to a several places where history was made by African-Americans. Slave quarters where the first published African-American poet lived and wrote. Secret stops on the route of the Underground Railroad. The home of the inventor-draftsman who worked with both Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell.

A tour of such sites offers diverse insights into the roles of...

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