Streetcar to Justice

by Amy Hill Hearth

here: Crossing from Brooklyn to New-York (Manhattan) across the frozen East River: Brooklyn Public Library—Brooklyn Collection.

  Chapter 10: The Jury’s Decision

  here: A lawyer makes his case: Courtesy of Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida.

  here: Some of the newspapers that published the jury’s decision. The Anti-Slavery Bugle in Ohio (where editors changed “coloured” to “colored”) was one of several newspapers which reprinted the story from the National Anti-Slavery Standard.

  here: Newspaper coverage of the jury’s decision: The Anti-Slavery Bugle, March 10, 1855, reprinted from the National Anti-Slavery Standard, March 3, 1855; Frederick Douglass’ Paper, March 2, 1855; and The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Feb. 23, 1855. Opposite page, New-York Daily Tribune, Feb. 23, 1855, reprinted in The Pacific Appeal, May 16, 1863.

  PART II: A Forgotten Hero

  Chapter 11: An Uncanny Similarity to Rosa Parks

  here: Rosa Parks on a bus: Getty Images, Underwood Archives/Contributor.

  here: New-York Daily Tribune, July 18 and 19, 1854.

  Chapter 12: What Happened to Elizabeth Jennings?

  here: Burning of the Colored Orphan Asylum during the Draft Riots of 1863: p.12 from “From Cherry Streets to Green Pastures . . .”, MSS- Papers of the Association for the Benefit of Colored Orphans, image 74634, New-York Historical Society.

  here: Freedman’s Bank record: National Archives.

  Chapter 13: How a Creepy Old House Led to the Writing of this Book

  here: House belonging to Chester Arthur in Ossining, New York: Courtesy of the Ossining Historical Society Museum.

  Chapter 14: Retracing Her Footsteps

  here: Street sign, Elizabeth Jennings Place: Courtesy of Miriam Sicherman and Michael Rose.

  Postscript: Chester A. Arthur: Tragedy Leads to Presidency

  here: Chester Arthur being sworn in as President of the United States at his house in Manhattan: Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.

  here: A portrait of Chester Arthur: Portrait painted by Ernest L. Ipsen. Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.

  About the Author

  AMY HILL HEARTH is a New York Times–bestselling author and journalist. Her first book, written with the late Sarah L. and A. Elizabeth Delany, is the acclaimed oral history Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years. Having Our Say was honored with a Christopher Award and later inspired a popular Broadway play and Peabody Award–winning movie. Amy Hill Hearth, who lives in New Jersey and worked as a reporter for the New York Times, has long been captivated by the history of New York City. A fascination with an old, abandoned house that once belonged to Chester A. Arthur led her to Elizabeth Jennings’s story, which she has researched for more than two decades. You can find out more about the author at www.amyhillhearth.com.

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  STREETCAR TO JUSTICE: HOW ELIZABETH JENNINGS WON THE RIGHT TO RIDE IN NEW YORK. Text copyright © 2018 by Amy Hill Hearth. Jacket: Photograph of New York City streetcar, 1889, courtesy of New-York Historical Society; painting of Elizabeth Jennings copyright © 2018 by Cozbi Cabrera; undated photograph of Elizabeth Jennings courtesy of Kansas Historical Society. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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  Library of Congress Control Number: 2017959047.

  ISBN 978-0-06-267360-2 (trade ed.)

  EPub Edition © January 2018 ISBN 9780062675934

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  * “set aside”

  * of the horses

  ** of the car

  *** onto the street

  **** of the coat

  ***** Sarah

  * the policeman

  ** the conductor’s employer, the railroad company

  * justice

  * The North River is the old term for the lower part of the Hudson in the vicinity of New York City.

  * Footnote: warned