In 1866 Mary Ellen Pleasant, "Mother of Civil Rights in California", sued & won after being thrown off this city's streetcar
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Pleasant Imagining: Speculation, Trials & Postmodern Black ...  Mar 2, 2015 ... The Mother of Civil Rights in California is having her say ... The figure of Mary Ellen Pleasant is a challenging one for scholars, biographers, .... up by and thrown off of a San Francisco trolley, separate incidents for which she singularly sued), the added layer of courtroom drama after civic disobedience...
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Black entrepreneur and abolitionist Mary Ellen Pleasant ... - Pinterest  Black entrepreneur and abolitionist Mary Ellen Pleasant was born in 1812. ... during the Gold Rush and is known as the Mother of Civil Rights in California. ... after she insisted on her right to ride on a New York City streetcar in 1854... yes, you ... She refused to get off the bus, sued and won, 100 years before Parks was born!
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Mary Ellen Pleasant - Wikipedia  Mary Ellen Pleasant (born 19 August 1814  1817 - died 4 January 1904) was a 19th-century ... After the Civil War, she took her battles to the courts in the 1860s and won several civil rights victories, one ... Suing over streetcar segregation[edit] ... after she and two other black women were ejected from a city streetcar in 1866.
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Mary Ellen Pleasant - Civil War Women  Jan 5, 2013 ... Mary Ellen Pleasant was a civil rights activist and entrepreneur who used her ... states, including California during the Gold Rush and won significant civil rights in the courts, earning the name 'Mother of Civil Rights in California.' Mary ... in California streetcars by suing a San Francisco streetcar company for...
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Black entrepreneur and abolitionist Mary Ellen Pleasant ... - Pinterest  In 1854 she was told to get off a streetcar and then forcibly removed by the crew and .... by boat in 1852 and would become the Mother of Civil Rights in California." "Born a slave on the East Coast, Mary Ellen Pleasant took refuge in California ...... sued the municipal railway in 1866 after ejection due to her color. She won.
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Rosa Parks - Black History - HISTORY.com  On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, AL and sparked the American Civil Rights movement of the 20th century.
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MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT  On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks, a 40 year old black seamstress, was ... The day Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat, the NAACP knew that she was ... The black community did not use violence to protest bus segregation, they .... Rosa was asked to move out of her seat and sit in the back of the bus.
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California Republic - Wikipedia  The California Republic was a short-lived, unrecognized breakaway state that, for twenty-five days in 1846, militarily controlled the area to the north of the San Francisco Bay in the present-day state of California. In June 1846, a number of American immigrants in Alta California rebelled ... The Bear Flag Revolt and whatever remained of the "California Republic"...
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What If Rosa Parks Didn't Move to the Back of the Bus - The Henry ...  The boycott of public buses by blacks in Montgomery lasted 381 days, ... in other cities and catapulted a young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King, Jr., into ... of another black woman, Claudette Colvin, for not giving up her seat, and the death ..... On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white...
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Carrie Chapman CattLeading the Way for Women's Rights  Iowa ...  The 19th Amendment made it illegal to deny a person the right to vote based ... Cattled the cause and dominated the efforts to pass the 19th Amendment. ... It was because of Carrie Chapman Catt's dedication to the cause, her brilliant organization ... By 1920 Carrie Chapman Catt was known worldwide as a leader who...
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Project MUSE - Mary Lincoln's Insanity Case  In 1875 Mary Lincoln, the widow of a revered president, was committed to an insane asylum by her son, Robert. ... sadder than another of the sad days that has shrouded the nation in gloom. ... The growing fact that she was. ... Suicide Attempt ... of Ex-President Lincolndeclared insane by Cook County Court May 19, 1875.
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King case aftermath: A city in crisis - LA Times - Los Angeles Times  May 2, 1992 ... LOCAL CALIFORNIA ... President Bush ordered 4,500 military troops into Los Angeles to ... long overdue by many in devastated areas of the city, was meant to ... in Detroit in 1967, leaving 43 dead and more than 2,000 injured. ... subpoenas had been issued Friday "in furtherance" of the grand jury probe.
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Rosa Parks - Wikipedia  Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913  October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". Her birthday, February 4, and the day she was arrested, December 1, have ... On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus...
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Mary Harris Jones - Wikipedia  Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (1837  30 November 1930) was an Irish-born American ... In 1903, to protest the lax enforcement of the child labor laws in the .... Jones was ideologically separated from many of the other female activists of the .... Mary Harris Jones died in Silver Spring, Maryland at the age of 93 on 30 November...
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Congressional Record, Volume 145 Issue 53 (Monday, April 19, 1999)  Apr 19, 1999 ... Rosa Parks issued that challenge to the powers that be. ... Throughout her long life, Rosa Parks has shown that one woman can make a real difference. ..... Ms. Parks helped start, today's Montgomery is a quite different city from the one ... and its history as the birthplace of the civil rights movement are both...
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Claudette Colvin - Wikipedia  Claudette Colvin is a pioneer of the African American Civil Rights Movement. On March 2, 1955 ... Three days later, the Supreme Court issued an order to Montgomery and the state of Alabama to end ... This event took place nine months before the NAACP secretary Rosa Parks was famously arrested for the same offense.
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1000+ ideas about Bus Boycott on Pinterest | Alberta Williams King ...  She sought to play down her role in the civil rights struggle but for her peaceful ..... December 1, 1955 In response to the Rosa Parks incident, a bus boycott in ..... Nine months before Rosa Parks' famous bus boycott, Colvin at 15 refused to give ... fifty-seven years ago today, All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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How Maya Angelou Became San Francisco's First African-American ...  May 28, 2014 ... She had moved to San Francisco from St. Louis with her mother, ... She had always admired the tailored uniforms the female streetcar conductors wore, ... And then after two weeks a man came out of his office and he said, "Come here. ... can all these famous bozos who get one rightly use the honorific?
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A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams And so it was I ...  corresponding sections in other American cities, it has a raffish charm. ... to take a streetcar named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ... It's sort of messed up right now but when it's clean it's real sweet. ..... BLANCHE [slowly]: The loss--the loss... STELLA: Belle Reve? Lost, is it? No! ...... A pretty sad one.
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On Rosa Parks' 100th Birthday, Recalling Her Rebellious Life Before ...  Feb 4, 2013 ... 1, 1955, Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city .... and so she decides to go and attend a Montgomery NAACP meeting. And she's the only woman there. ... and so she is elected branch secretary at her very first meeting in 1943. ... Parks herself had made various stands on the bus.
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Yick Wo: How A Racist Laundry Law In Early San Francisco Helped ...  Aug 23, 2015 ... A laundry proprietor South of Market fought a legal battle in 1886 against ... "A Chinese Laundry in San Francisco, California  "The Coming Man Washing, Drying, ... of being the first law to prevent a specific ethnic group from immigrating. ... On December 29, 1885 the California Supreme Court upheld the...