{"id":5870,"date":"2025-02-13T13:32:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T13:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/the-story-of-two-brooklyn-sisters-who-forged-a-family-of-firsts\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T13:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T13:32:20","slug":"the-story-of-two-brooklyn-sisters-who-forged-a-family-of-firsts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/the-story-of-two-brooklyn-sisters-who-forged-a-family-of-firsts\/","title":{"rendered":"The story of two Brooklyn sisters who forged a family of firsts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><strong>NEW YORK <\/strong>&#8211; \u00a0A peaceful playground in Williamsburg bears the name of Sarah J. S. Tompkins Garnet. Two miles away, in DUMBO is a park named after Susan Smith McKinney Steward. These are not the only places which bear their names; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mckinneyssa.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">school in Fort Greene<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ps9brooklyn.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">another in Prospect Heights<\/a> are also named after them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Who were these women who left such a mark on Brooklyn?<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward was the first Black Woman to practice medicine in New York State, graduating as valedictorian and opening a prosperous office in Brooklyn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s working as a teacher, and it&#8217;s her own income that is paying her way through medical school,&#8221; says Dominique Jean-Louis, Chief Historian at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bklynlibrary.org\/center-for-brooklyn-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brooklyn Public Library&#8217;s Center for Brooklyn History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Her older sister Sarah Garnet became the first Black female principal of a New York City Public school.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s easy to understand how they become trailblazers in their field. And also become national and even international symbols of what Black women are capable of,&#8221; Jean-Louis tells CBS News New York reporter Hannah Kliger. \u00a0&#8220;It has everything to do with the special circumstances of Brooklyn&#8217;s Black community, and specifically, Weeksville, that is creating such excellence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Louis says a look at their early life can provide hints at where they took their inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>They were born to Sylvanus Smith, a prosperous hog farmer in <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/the-houses-at-weeksville-heritage-center-are-living-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Brooklyn&#8217;s Weeksville<\/a><\/span>, one of the first free Black communities in the United States, founded in the 1830s.<\/p>\n<p>At its peak, it was a thriving, self-sufficient Black neighborhood full of businesses, churches, and schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world they&#8217;re growing up in is a world of Black uplift, right, where people are not only trying to do well for themselves, trying to achieve in a world that has obstacles that are specific to Black people, but they&#8217;re also trying to uplift their neighbors,&#8221; Jean-Louis explains.<\/p>\n<p>Regina Robbins is tour educator at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weeksvillesociety.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Weeksville Heritage Center<\/a>, where several original houses remain along with collections celebrating prominent residents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People were drawn here not merely by economic necessity, but also by a desire to be a part of a majority Black community, which was essentially unheard of in the United States at that time,&#8221; she says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Garnet and Dr. McKinney Steward went to London in 1911 to present at the Universal Races Congress to promote interracial harmony.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dr. McKinney Steward specialized in childhood disease, co-founded a hospital, and later in life, ventured out West with her second husband, Theophilus Gould Steward, a U.S. Army Buffalo Soldier of the first all-Black Army regiment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her great-granddaughter is the late actress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.televisionacademy.com\/bios\/ellen-holly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ellen Holly<\/a>, America&#8217;s first Black soap opera star who died in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Its very special when someone recognizes your work,&#8221; Holly said in a 2004 interview recognizing her contribution to the history of TV.<\/p>\n<p>Both sisters were also involved in the Women&#8217;s Suffrage movement and helped create the Equal Suffrage League, which worked to abolish race and gender discrimination in the late 1880s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once abolition was achieved, a lot of those allies kind of went away. And you had women standing there asking, &#8216;well, what about us? &#8216;So women like Sarah and Susan took it upon themselves to take up the mantle for Women&#8217;s Suffrage,&#8221; Robbins explains.<\/p>\n<p>Among the idyllic hills of <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/green-wood-cemetery-brooklyn\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Brooklyn&#8217;s historic Green-wood Cemetery<\/a><\/span> are two graves steps away from each other; the resting places of both sisters who desired to educate and heal their community.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Have a story idea or tip in Brooklyn? 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