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Streetcar to justice : how Elizabeth Jennings won the right to ride in New York
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Hearth, Amy Hill, 1958- author
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Graham, Elizabeth Jennings, 1827-1901.
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African American women New York (State) New York Biography Juvenile literature.
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African Americans New York (State) New York Biography Juvenile literature.
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\"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.