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Streetcar to justice : how Elizabeth Jennings won the right to ride in New York

Hearth, Amy Hill, 1958- author

2018

Overview

\"In 1854, a young African American woman named Elizabeth Jennings won a major victory against a New York City streetcar company, a first step in the process of desegregating public transportation in Manhattan ... One hundred years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Elizabeth Jennings's refusal to leave a segregated streetcar in the Five Points neighborhood of Manhattan set into motion a major court case in New York City\"--Amazon.com.

• Publisher: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
• Subject: Graham, Elizabeth Jennings, 1827-1901. / African American women New York (State) New York Biography Juvenile literature. / African Americans New York (State) New York Biography Juvenile literature. / Civil rights workers New York (State) New York Biography Juvenile literature. / African Americans Civil rights New York (State) New York History 19th century Juvenile literature. / Segregation in transportation New York (State) New York History 19th century Juvenile literature. / African American women. / African Americans. / Civil rights workers. / African Americans Civil rights. / Segregation in transportation. / New York (State) Race relations Juvenile literature. / New York (State) Biography Juvenile literature. / New York (State) Race relations. / New York (State) Biography.
• ISBN: 9780062673602, 0062673602

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
F128.9.N4 H43 2018	1	CHILDBOOK	CHILDREN