african american teen stabbed, robbed of bike
One hundred years ago today … Kenneth King, an 18-year-old African American was stabbed on Classon Avenue, Brooklyn, in the early morning hours. King had refused to lend his bicycle to white men of his acquaintance, who then attacked him and stole the vehicle.
The Standard Union, 23 April 1920, p. 2. Newspapers.com
King was taken to the Jewish Hospital, then nearby on Classon Avenue between Prospect Place and St. Marks Avenue, later, in 1928, to relocate to 555 Prospect Place.
The news was reported by The Standard Union, a Brooklyn evening newspaper that had been in publication since 1887, and would merge in 1932 with the Brooklyn Daily Times to become the Brooklyn Times-Union.
WRITTEN BY JONATHAN GOLDMAN, APRIL 23, 2020
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