Quiz: Test your knowledge of Black history on Long Island
A Long Island State Parks Black History Month exhibit from 2012. Credit: JOHN WILLIAMS
Protests across Long Island and the nation over the past year triggered by the deaths of George Floyd and others at the hands of police have forced the nation to examine its past and unequal treatment of Black people.
As part of that social and racial reckoning, advocates and activists are demanding recognition of Black people’s contributions to U.S. history--and the fact that some revered Founding Fathers and figures such as Declaration of Independence signer and Long Island plantation owner William Floyd owned slaves while espousing freedom for all men.
To test Newsday readers’ knowledge of Black history on Long Island, we asked the following questions:
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NewsdayTV team coverage of Rex Heuermann guilty pleas in Gilgo Beach killings Rex Heuermann, of Massapequa Park, has pleaded guilty to the murders of seven women whose bodies were found along Gilgo Beach and admitted to killing another. NewsdayTV has team coverage from key locations around Long Island.
