Feature

A Stand on the Streetcar

How an individual act of resistance in 1850s’ New York led to the desegregation of the city’s transit system.

Rachel Serkin | Published in History Today Volume 71 Issue 1 January 2021

A New York streetcar, c.1890.
A New York streetcar, c.1890 © Getty Images.

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