Streetcar to Justice: How Elizabeth Jennings Won the Right to Ride in New York by Hearth, Amy Hill
Streetcar to Justice: How Elizabeth Jennings Won the Right to Ride in New York by Hearth, Amy Hill

Streetcar to Justice: How Elizabeth Jennings Won the Right to Ride in New York

Starred reviews hail Streetcar to Justice as "a book that belongs in any civil rights library collection"...
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Author: Amy Hill Hearth
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Streetcar to Justice: How Elizabeth Jennings Won the Right to Ride in New York by Hearth, Amy Hill

Streetcar to Justice: How Elizabeth Jennings Won the Right to Ride in New York

$52.83
Streetcar to Justice: How Elizabeth Jennings Won the Right to Ride in New York by Hearth, Amy Hill

Streetcar to Justice: How Elizabeth Jennings Won the Right to Ride in New York

$52.83
Author: Amy Hill Hearth
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Starred reviews hail Streetcar to Justice as "a book that belongs in any civil rights library collection" (Publishers Weekly) and "completely fascinating and unique" (Kirkus). An ALA Notable Book and winner of a Septima Clark Book Award from the National Council for the Social Studies.

Bestselling author and journalist Amy Hill Hearth uncovers the story of a little-known figure in U.S. history in this fascinating biography.

In 1854, a young African American woman named Elizabeth Jennings won a major victory against a New York City streetcar company, a first step in the process of desegregating public transportation in Manhattan.

This illuminating and important piece of the history of the fight for equal rights, illustrated with photographs and archival material from the period, will engage fans of Phillip Hoose's Claudette Colvin and Steve Sheinkin's Most Dangerous.

One hundred years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Elizabeth Jennings's refusal to leave a segregated streetcar in the Five Points neighborhood of Manhattan set into motion a major court case in New York City.

On her way to church one day in July 1854, Elizabeth Jennings was refused a seat on a streetcar. When she took her seat anyway, she was bodily removed by the conductor and a nearby police officer and returned home bruised and injured. With the support of her family, the African American abolitionist community of New York, and Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Jennings took her case to court. Represented by a young lawyer named Chester A. Arthur (a future president of the United States) she was victorious, marking a major victory in the fight to desegregate New York City's public transportation.

Amy Hill Hearth, bestselling author of Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, illuminates a lesser-known benchmark in the struggle for equality in the United States, while painting a vivid picture of the diverse Five Points neighborhood of Manhattan in the mid-1800s.

Includes sidebars, extensive illustrative material, notes, and an index.



Author: Amy Hill Hearth
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Published: 01/02/2018
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.30w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780062673602
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.7
Point Value: 3
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 193507 / Streetcar to Justice: How Elizabeth Jennings Won the Right to Ride in New York


Review Citation(s):
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 01/01/2018
Booklist 10/15/2017 pg. 39
Publishers Weekly 10/16/2017
School Library Journal 01/01/2018
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2018 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw
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