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Letter About Flushing Burial Ground

Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Mandingo Osceola Tshaka and Robbie Garrison
Date: 1990s; 1990 Material: Document Dimension: 8.5 x 11 inches; 1 pages
Creator: Mandingo Osceola Tshaka Identifier: aql:20873 qmp-mot-rg-redact-000005 qmp-mot-rg-redact-000005.pdf

Description: Community activist Mandingo Osceola Tshaka wrote this letter detailing the history of the "Colored Cemetery of Flushing" to a Mr. Marion Phillips in the 1990s, as part of his campaign to have the site's history recognized.

Collection : aql:20455; aql:20919

Creator : Mandingo Osceola Tshaka

Date : 1990s; 1990

Summary/Description : Community activist Mandingo Osceola Tshaka wrote this letter detailing the history of the "Colored Cemetery of Flushing" to a Mr. Marion Phillips in the 1990s, as part of his campaign to have the site's history recognized.

Subject : Cemeteries; Olde Towne of Flushing Burial Ground Conservancy

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Coverage : Olde Towne Of Flushing Burial Ground; Queens Historical Society Olde Towne of Flushing Burial Ground Flushing (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Document

Format : Document; 8.5 x 11 inches; 1 pages

Identifier : aql:20873 qmp-mot-rg-redact-000005 qmp-mot-rg-redact-000005.pdf

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Cemeteries; Olde Towne of Flushing Burial Ground Conservancy
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