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Direct linkPerrotta, Katherine – Social Education, 2022
On a hot July day in 1854, 24-year-old schoolteacher Elizabeth Jennings, accompanied by a friend, attempted to board a horse-drawn trolley to attend Sunday church services in Lower Manhattan. The Irish conductor refused, telling Jennings, who was African American, to await a horsecar for "her people." When Jennings resisted, the…
Descriptors: Empathy, Court Litigation, United States History, African Americans
