The Struggle for Equal Rights in Antebellum New England
by
Richard Archer
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
More than a century before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, Shadrach Howard, David Ruggles, Frederick Douglass, and others had rejected demands that they relinquish their seats on various New England railroads. They were protesting segregation on Jim Crow cars, a term that...