On a sweltering July day in 1854, Elizabeth Jennings had zero intention of letting racial discrimination make her late to church. Her violent removal from the “whites-only” streetcar she had been riding was the beginning of the end for racial segregation on New York streetcars. 

https://daily.jstor.org/the-woman-who-refused-to-leave-a-whites-only-streetcar/

https://ny.curbed.com/2020/2/4/21120447/nyc-history-elizabeth-jennings-graham-public-transit

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/elizabeth-jennings-graham/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Jennings_Graham

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