McCants Stewart. a lawyer. politician. and close friend of T. Thomas Fortune. founder of New York Citys AfricanAmerican newspaper the New York Globe and a persistent crusader for equal rights for AfricanAmericans in all areas of life. Under Stewarts leadership the AfricanAmerican children of P.S. 68 were integrated with the new white school P.S. 83 at Bergen Street and Schenectady Avenue. Stewarts championship of racial equality and his political activism may have caused his removal from the Board of Education in 1894. shortly afterward. he emigrated to Liberia. Stewart was succeeded on the board by Samuel R. Scrottron. entertainer Lena Hornes grandfather.
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