Brooklyn 'Lovejoy,' Illinois is a village in St. Clair County located two miles north of East St. Louis and three miles northeast of downtown St. Louis, Missouri. It is thought to be the oldest town incorporated by African Americans in the United States. The town was founded by freed and fugitive slaves from St. Louis […]

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