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African Free School

defunct school in Manhattan, New York City
Organization school Q4689768
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African Free School

Summary

African Free School is a school[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of school entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (21 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • African Free School is in the country of United States[3].
  • African Free School's image is recorded as AfricanFreeSchool.jpg[4].
  • African Free School's instance of is recorded as school[5].
  • African Free School's founder is recorded as John Jay[6].
  • African Free School's founder is recorded as New York Manumission Society[7].
  • African Free School's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 143526174[8].
  • African Free School's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as nr98001549[9].
  • +1787-11-02T00:00:00Z marks the founding of African Free School[10].
  • African Free School's coordinate location is recorded as {'globe': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2', 'altitude': None, 'latitude': 40.71861111111111, 'longitude': -73.99777777777778, 'precision': 0.0002777777777777778}[11].
  • African Free School's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0271_dt[12].
  • African Free School's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/African-Free-School[13].
  • African Free School's date of official closure is recorded as +1835-00-00T00:00:00Z[14].
  • African Free School's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject African diaspora[15].
  • African Free School's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987010039674105171[16].
  • African Free School's Yale LUX ID is recorded as group/eea72933-9daa-4353-b1e6-31383a280a28[17].

Body

Founding

Founders include John Jay[6] and New York Manumission Society[7]. +1787-11-02T00:00:00Z marks the founding of African Free School[10].

Why It Matters

African Free School ranks in the top 4% of school entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (21 views/month).[2]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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