La Enciclopedia de Brooklyn
Figuras destacadas
Colonos, alcaldes, activistas, urbanistas, deportistas y escritores que moldearon Brooklyn
Desde Lady Deborah Moody y la comunidad negra libre de Weeksville hasta Jackie Robinson y los escritores de Brooklyn Heights, este volumen recorre a las personas que hicieron de Brooklyn un laboratorio de libertad, intelecto e igualdad. También sigue los lugares que conservan su memoria, del Center for Brooklyn History a Ebbets Field y Willow Street.
- 9 capítulos
- 29 min de lectura
- 3 tablas
- 90 fuentes
- Actualizado el viernes, 9 de octubre
Contenido
- El Center for Brooklyn HistoryLa memoria de Brooklyn se conserva en el Center for Brooklyn History, una institución fundada en 1863 cuya sede histórica y cuyos archivos documentan el recorrido del distrito, desde sus orígenes rurales hasta su fuerza industrial e intelectual.3 min de lectura
- Los cimientos de la autonomía: asentamiento y primeros gobiernos municipalesDesde la carta de 1645 de Lady Deborah Moody para Gravesend hasta los alcaldes George Hall y Henry C. Murphy, el primer Brooklyn sentó un precedente de autonomía, libertad religiosa y liderazgo cívico.4 min de lectura
- Las fortalezas de la libertad: Weeksville y el empoderamiento negroFundada en 1838 por James Weeks, Weeksville fue una de las primeras comunidades negras libres de Estados Unidos y dio lugar a un notable linaje de educadoras, médicos y activistas.4 min de lectura
- La convergencia de la medicina, el sufragio y la NAACPLa Dra. Verina Morton Jones, Mary White Ovington y Margaret Sanger hicieron de Brooklyn una base para la medicina, los derechos civiles y la autonomía corporal.4 min de lectura
- Ingeniería espiritual y filantrópicaLa iglesia Plymouth de Henry Ward Beecher, Prospect Park de Olmsted y Vaux y los Astral Apartments de Charles Pratt buscaron aliviar las duras realidades de la densidad urbana.3 min de lectura
- Ebbets Field y el crisol de la integraciónEn Ebbets Field y en una oficina de Brooklyn Heights, Branch Rickey y Jackie Robinson derribaron la barrera racial de las Grandes Ligas y transformaron el distrito.5 min de lectura
- Las alturas literarias y los santuarios intelectualesBrooklyn Heights se convirtió en un santuario para escritores e intelectuales estadounidenses, de Walt Whitman a Truman Capote, Arthur Miller y W.E.B. Du Bois.3 min de lectura
- 70 Willow Street y 31 Grace CourtLa historia de 70 Willow Street y 31 Grace Court muestra a Brooklyn Heights como un refugio estético para la creación literaria y a la vez como un asilo para intelectuales perseguidos.3 min de lectura
- ConclusiónLas figuras históricas de Brooklyn están en la vanguardia de la lucha ideológica estadounidense, y lugares como el Center for Brooklyn History mantienen vivo su legado.2 min de lectura
Las 90 fuentes de este volumen
- 10 Secrets of the Center for Brooklyn History - Untapped New York ↗
- The Center for Brooklyn History ↗
- History - Brooklyn Public Library ↗
- Center for Brooklyn History - NYU ↗
- Center for Brooklyn History - New York Landmarks Conservancy ↗
- Brooklyn Public Library Center for Brooklyn History - Time Out ↗
- Center for Brooklyn History - Wikipedia ↗
- Online Collections | Center for Brooklyn History ↗
- Old Gravesend Cemetery Highlights - NYC Parks ↗
- Gravesend in Brooklyn - Atlas Obscura ↗
- Lady Deborah Moody, founder of Gravesend, Brooklyn ... - Facebook ↗
- Old Gravesend Cemetery - Wikipedia ↗
- Field Trip: Gravesend - Urban Omnibus ↗
- Washington Hall Park Highlights - NYC Parks ↗
- Timeline of Brooklyn - Wikipedia ↗
- Brooklyn Timeline ↗
- Brooklyn Heights Archives - The Bowery Boys: New York City History ↗
- Senator Street Historic District - - Trust for Architectural Easements ↗
- A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County - Project Gutenberg ↗
- Pictorial history of Brooklyn, issued by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on ↗
- The Eagle and Brooklyn: the record of the progress of the Brooklyn ↗
- Owls Head Park in Brooklyn's history and construction - Facebook ↗
- Black in Nineteenth-Century Brooklyn - Thought Gallery ↗
- Black in Nineteenth-Century Brooklyn - The Green-Wood Cemetery ↗
- Beyond the Village and Back: Historic Weeksville, Brooklyn ↗
- The Battle for Weeksville Heritage Center | 112BK - YouTube ↗
- Sarah J. Tompkins Garnet | Historical Brooklyn - WordPress.com ↗
- Weeksville, Brooklyn, New York, a story - African American Registry ↗
- WEEKSVILLE - Brooklyn Public Library ↗
- Abolitionist Brooklyn (1828 – 1849) | In Pursuit of Freedom ↗
- Brooklyn Walking Tours - In Pursuit of Freedom ↗
- NYC Landmarks and the Vote at 100 - ArcGIS StoryMaps ↗
- Sarah J.S. Tompkins Garnet Playground - Brooklyn ↗
- An unassuming building in New York City educated Black leaders ↗
- Put Her On A Pedestal - Monumental Women ↗
- Sarah J. Garnet - Wikipedia ↗
- Sarah J. Tompkins Garnet, Educator and Suffragist born. ↗
- In The Company Of Black Men: The African Influence on African ↗
- On Day 276 of 365 Facts About Black Women, I'm highlighting Dr ↗
- Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State ↗
- A Fundamental Component: Black Women and Right to Vote ↗
- Susan Smith McKinney Steward | Alexander Street Documents ↗
- Mary White Ovington | Suffragist, Activist, Writer - Britannica ↗
- Mary White Ovington | Encyclopedia.com ↗
- The Segregation Era (1900–1939) - The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ↗
- CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS | NAACP Oranges & Maplewood Branch ↗
- The Birth of the NAACP, and Their Deep Roots in Greenwich Village ↗
- Seventy Fifth Anniversary of the Brownsville Clinic ↗
- In October of 1918, Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control ↗
- Margaret Sanger's birth control clinic and other historic sites in ↗
- A Stroll Through Brooklyn Heights - walking tour ↗
- Address - Urban Archive - South of Union Square ↗
- Address - Urban Archive - South of Union Square ↗
- Prospect Park | New York Landmarks Conservancy ↗
- The Story of Olmsted and Vaux's Perfected Plan ↗
- Landmarks Conservancy Highlights Prospect Park ↗
- Prospect Park 150: The Creation of Prospect Park ↗
- Olmsted–Designed New York City Parks ↗
- Ocean Parkway (Brooklyn) - Wikipedia ↗
- Astral Apartments | HDC - Historic Districts Council ↗
- Astral Apartments - Wikipedia ↗
- Astral Apartments - NYC.gov ↗
- Brooklyn Dodgers - BR Bullpen - Baseball-Reference.com ↗
- Ebbets Field - Wikipedia ↗
- Jackie Robinson Playground Highlights - NYC Parks ↗
- Ebbets Field - MAAP | Mapping the African American Past ↗
- Swing through these 10 NYC sites associated with Jackie Robinson ↗
- Jackie Robinson Day | Museum of the City of New York ↗
- The Right Man for the Job - The City Reliquary ↗
- Where the Dodgers Made Baseball History and Jackie Robinson ↗
- Dodger Remnants: Jackie, Pee Wee, and a Brooklyn Left Behind ↗
- Ask a historian: What writers lived in Brooklyn Heights? ↗
- Brooklyn Heights - Wikipedia ↗
- Address - Urban Archive - South of Union Square ↗
- Whitmanites make surprise appearance at hearing to call for ↗
- OPINION: Walt Whitman, black Brooklyn, Wounded Knee and me ↗
- An Ode to Brooklyn Poets ↗
- Walt Whitman Initiative – Connecting NYC to America's Poet ↗
- Address - Urban Archive - South of Union Square ↗
- Brooklyn Heights Video Tour - Part 2 : New York Habitat Blog ↗
- Oliver Smith Residence / Truman Capote Residence ↗
- 70 Willow Street: Truman Capote's Onetime Home ↗
- Near Pier 10 - Urban Archive - South of Union Square ↗
- Flatbush + Main : W.E.B. Du Bois in Brooklyn ↗
- Address - Urban Archive - South of Union Square ↗
- W.E.B. Du Bois, Gender, and Black History - AAIHS ↗
- The Truman Capote House in Brooklyn Where He Wrote Breakfast ↗
- Brooklyn Heights: A Personal Memoir - Wikipedia ↗
- Truman Capote and his House on the Heights - Atlas Obscura ↗
- Det litterære Brooklyn | FDM Travel ↗