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Read more: https://www.nytransitmuseum.org/elizabethjenningsgraham/
TIL of Elizabeth Jennings Graham, an African-American woman who, in 1854, successfully sued NYC’s Third Avenue Railway for denying her a seat on horsecar helping to lead to the desegregation of the city’s public transportation
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The more things change the more they stay the same, a coloured person won’t find a seat on a horsecar in NYC today.
she was just like any other “shelt” that they had heard of.
When the first “black passengers” walked into the train at Broadway, I called my mother and said, “No. That’s a white woman who works here. And when the train hit her, she didn’t turn around. But, she walked right into it.