5.9K views · 47 reactions | In honor of Black History Month, we're celebrating the people of Seneca Village, one of the first black communities of New York. "They defined what it meant to be an American, even when the law and the government did not see them as such." | Secrets of the Dead | Facebook

The forgotten history of Seneca Village, a thriving Black community in New York City that was erased to make way for Central Park in the 1850s. | MarkizMarketing

To build New York's Central Park a historically black community was destroyed. This is the story of Seneca Village: | Vox

5.6K views · 239 reactions | Cal Jones is Manhattan Borough Historian Emeritus and is researching residents and descendants of Seneca Village. He shares a connection he found between one of the resident's son’s, and one of Abraham Lincoln’s co-conspirators #blackhistorymonth https://cbsn.ws/3gs9Ath | CBS Sunday Morning | Facebook