Streetcar Boycott

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Seeds of Resistance: The Richmond Streetcar Boycotts

A graduate student in Public History and two film students have created a short but excellent documentary for The National Museum of African American History…

Errol SomayMay 23, 2017

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“Stay Off the Cars”–The Boycott of the Virginia Passenger and Power Company

In 1902 Louisiana became the first to pass a statewide statute requiring mandatory segregation of streetcars, followed by Mississippi in 1904. That same year, Virginia…

Kelley EwingJuly 27, 2012

Seeds of Resistance: The Richmond Streetcar Boycotts

“Stay Off the Cars”–The Boycott of the Virginia Passenger and Power Company

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