April 17, 1863: Charlotte Brown Forced Off Streetcar
Months after San Francisco’s horse-powered street car companies during the Civil War dispatched their street cars — with orders to only accept white passengers — African American citizens began to directly challenge this discrimination.
On April 17, 1863, Charlotte Brown, a young African American woman from a prominent family, boarded a street car and was forced off. Determined to assert her rights, Brown boarded street cars twice more and twice more was ejected by the year’s end. Each time she began a legal suit against the company.
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Posted By: Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Monday, April 17th 2023 at 11:38AM
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