Comments on: Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn Co-named Toussaint L’ouverture BLVD https://www.lunionsuite.com/brooklyn-named-toussaint-louverture-blvd/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brooklyn-named-toussaint-louverture-blvd Country - People - Culture Mon, 21 Apr 2025 10:28:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: leybadoris https://www.lunionsuite.com/brooklyn-named-toussaint-louverture-blvd/#comment-43724 Tue, 22 May 2018 23:10:31 +0000 http://www.lunionsuite.com/?p=43644#comment-43724 Chicago was founded by a Black man – The first European settler in Chicago, Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, arrived in the 1770s, married a (native indian) Potawatomi woman, and founded the area’s first trading post. By August 12, 1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of 350.

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