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Brooklyn Plaza named in His Honor
BY JEAN NASH WELLS
On Saturday, July 2, 2021 despite the threat of rain, more than one hundred people gathered to honor educator and activist for social justice, the late Jitu Weusi.
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The occasion was the hard fought renaming of Putnam Triangle on Fulton Street and Grand Avenue in Brooklyn to Jitu Weusi Plaza.
Born in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Jitu Weusi (1939-2013) formerly known as, Leslie R.
Campbell, began his career in education with the New York City Department of Education. He was a founding member of the African-American Teachers Association (ATA) and notably knownfor his involvement in the Ocean Hill Brownsville conflict that proved to be instrumental in bringing about changes nationwide in community control of public education.
In the late 60s, Jitu Weusi left the department of education and opened Uhuru Sasa Shule (Freedom Now School), the first Black, independent, private school in New York City for inner-city youth.
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