Samuel J. Battle

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Sentinel News ServiceAugust 4, 2020

135th St. and Lenox Ave. became Samuel J. Battle Plaza in honor of the first black parole commissioner, 2009

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Black365January 16, 2020

Samuel J. Battle, the first African American police officer in the NYPD was born in New Bern, NC, 1883.