A Right to the Rails: America's First Freedom Rider

On this episode of Our American Stories, 100 years before Rosa Parks refused to leave her seat on a bus in Montgomery, there was Elizabeth Jennings, who refused to leave hers in New York City. Jerry Mikorenda, author of America's First Freedom Rider, tells the remarkable story of the event that would desegregate NYC transportation before the Civil War, Civil Rights Movement, and abolition of slavery.  

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