Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward of Weeksville
Sarah Smith Garnet & Dr. Susan Smith-McKinney Steward were sisters - Sarah the eldest of 10, Susan the 7th. <br /><br />Together, their impact on Brooklyn's African-American community was immense. <br /><br />Their suffrage contributions - Sarah's especially - were significant.<br /><br />They grew up on Long Island and in @Weeksville, an independent Black community in Brooklyn founded in 1838. Their father Sylvanus was a prominent abolitionist and community leader. <br /><br />Susan went to medical school at the New York Medical College, which Dr. Clemence Lozier had founded in 1863 so other women would have an easier path into medicine than her own.<br /><br />Susan graduated in 1870, valedictorian of her class. <br /><br />She was the third African-American woman to graduate medical school in the US. She built a thriving pediatric and OB practice in Brooklyn and founded the Women's Hospital & Dispensary and the Homeopathic Hospital. She treated Black and white patients in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. <br /><br />The townhouse where she lived and worked still stands, as does the impressive red brick Brooklyn Home for the Aged in Weeksville, where she was the physician of record for two decades. @<a href="https://twitter.com/Brownstoner" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">brownstoner</a> illustrates accomplishments with site-specific photos <a href="https://www.brownstoner.com/history/african-american-history-brooklyn-fort-greene-dr-susan-smith-mckinney-steward-205-dekalb-avenue/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://t.co/ZMsyksxlHg</a> <br /><br />Dr. McKinney is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery with a terrific headstone. A block of Prospect Place is named in her honor, and a medical society founded in 1974 is named for her. Read more about Dr. McKinney on the @<a href="https://twitter.com/BKLYNlibrary" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">BKLYNLibrary</a> site <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2018/01/25/susan-smith-mckinney" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://t.co/PhlDTpw5jO</a> <br /><br />...and listen to the <a href="https://twitter.com/brooklynhistory" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@BrooklynHistory</a> podcast about her: <a href="https://www.brooklynhistory.org/podcasts/flatbush-main-episode-25-brooklyns-pioneering-women-doctors/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://t.co/xViA0yXvWm</a> <br /><br />In 1902, Susan helped her older sister create the Brooklyn Equal Suffrage League, the city's first African-American organization devoted to women's suffrage. Tune in tomorrow for more. #BlackSuffragists #Suffrage100
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25/05/2020
<a href="DR.%20BLACKWELL,%20DR.%20LOZIER,%20DR.%20CRUMPLER" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">DR. BLACKWELL, DR. LOZIER, DR. CRUMPLER</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.brownstoner.com/history/african-american-history-brooklyn-fort-greene-dr-susan-smith-mckinney-steward-205-dekalb-avenue/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">A Brownstone for a Remarkable Woman, Brookyn’s Pioneering Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward</a><br /><br /><br /><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/444120888&color=%2342586f&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"></iframe>
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IdaB in Brooklyn
When Ida B Wells arrived in Brooklyn, it was still its own city. (The 5 boros consolidated in 1898.) How imposing the massive metropolis must have felt to Ida, forced to flee Memphis in 1892 after publishing “The Truth About Lynching.” <br /><br />Ida’s life-long crusade against lynching began to take shape while living on Gold Street. She eventually settled in Chicago, but Brooklyn was where she learned to be a public speaker - in part by asking Maritcha Remond Lyons, who had bested her in a debate, to coach her. <br /><br />Today Brooklyn thanked her for her service to the nation by naming Gold Street “Ida B Wells Place.” It was cold, but 100 people stayed to hear Ida’s biographer Paula Giddings, and her greatest contemporary inheritor, @<a href="https://twitter.com/nhannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">nhannahjones</a>. <br /><br />Ida’s great-grandson Benjamin Duster and 2 of her great-great-daughters were there too, plus @<a href="https://twitter.com/ljoywilliams" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ljoywilliams</a> and many more. Prof. Giddings was polite enough not to mention the rivalry between Brooklyn & Manhattan women that she describes in her book...but Manhattan should be feeling competitive! The (now demolished) hall where Ida gave her very 1st public speech was right by Bryant Park. Isn't it time for a plaque? #BlackSuffragists #Suffrage100
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