Fellow Travelers: The Fight to Desegregate Philadelphia’s Streecars After the Civil War
Posted by Terry Crowley on Oct 21, 2024 in | Comments Off on Fellow Travelers: The Fight to Desegregate Philadelphia’s Streecars After the Civil War “When a nation suffers as ours does, from the misfortune of having two races . . . one long civilized, the other emerging from the shades of barbarism . . . there is much in the relations between them that must be left to the lessons of experience and the tribunal of public opinion.” And so, Judge John Hare of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas ruled that a Black man was not entitled to...read more