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Elizabeth Jennings Graham (March 1827 – June 5, 1901) was an African-American teacher and civil rights figure. In 1854, Graham insisted on her right to ride on an available New York City streetcar at a time when all such companies were private and most operated segregated cars.
Elizabeth Jennings Graham (March 1827 – June 5, 1901) was an African-American teacher and civil rights activist, who challenged segregation on public transportation, a full 100 years before Rosa Parks did so.
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Aug 15, 2018 · On Sunday, July 16th, 1854, a young black schoolteacher named Elizabeth Jennings was running late. She was heading to the First Colored American Congregational Church, where she was the organist, and needed to catch the Third Avenue streetcar.
100 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a 24-year-old Black New Yorker stood her ground on a streetcar. With courage and perseverance, she won the first recorded legal victory for equal rights on public transportation.
Nov 4, 2013 · Her parents were both prominent members of New York City’s small black middle class and her father was the first African American to hold a patent in the United States. He was also involved in many social and religious organizations and was one of the founders of New York’s Abyssinian Baptist Church.
Historical Moments. ‘I did not get off the car’. In 1854, a Black woman championed the end to segregated public transportation in New York City. A future president helped her. Photo: Elizabeth Jennings Graham; Wikimedia Commons. Elizabeth Jennings's first-person story appeared in the New York Daily Tribune on July 19, 1854.
Jan 11, 2020 · A young black woman in New York City in the 1850s, Graham’s own defiance helped desegregate New York City public transportation more than a century before the Montgomery Bus Boycott. If you wanted to get around New York City in the 1850s, horse-drawn carriages were a routine manner of travel.
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