Word: brookland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crash Course. Ed Brooke grew up in a pleasant northeast-Washington section called, coincidentally, Brookland, which was populated by black bourgeoisie. The family belonged to St. Luke's Episcopal Church, a favored house of worship for well-to-do Negroes ?where, it was said, one minister died of sorrow because his congregation complained that his new bride was too black to sit in the pews...
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