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Seneca Park

Until now, history books have described the creation of New York's Central Park as a story of developing a desolate patch of Manhattan where no more than a few squatters lived. But NPR's Margo Adler reports on a new exhibition that shows that a vibrant village of African Americans lived there before they were uprooted.

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