Ever wonder what Central Park was like before it was a park? This video is excellent. #nyc #history #senecaVillage #nycHistory #centralPark #aquaduct
(I like how this video ends with "and people keep saying there are secret tunnels IDK..." LMAO Don't let the dream die.)
Maritcha Remond Lyons was an African American educator, suffragist, and civic rights leader. Her parents Albro Lyons Sr. and Mary Joseph Lyons had an ambrotype taken of her (and themselves and her sister Pauline) around 1860, capturing her as a young girl. It's possible that her parents Albro Lyons Sr. and Mary Joseph Lyons were property owners in Seneca Village before it was razed to make way for Central Park, and they also served as conductors on the Underground Railroad, stealthily using their sailor's emporium as a stop. As an adult, Maritcha would devote almost 50 years of her life to teaching in public schools in Brooklyn, becoming the second black woman to hold the position of assistant principal. In 1892, Lyons cofounded the Women's Loyal Union of New York and Brooklyn, which helped to fund the printing of Ida B. Wells's anti-lynching pamphlet "Southern Horrors: Lynch Laws in All Its Phases."
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