Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120603:15:54:00
Cars. that nullification allowed the shadow of jim crow to descend, as historian blair kelly to describe, in her text, "ride to ride" black women bore the brubt of train segregation, they were allowed neither the comfort nor ladies. kelly explains that the majority of state and federal court cases were brought by black little litigants against the railroad. and the most famous was ida b. wells, she went on to become a fearless journalist and an anti-lynching advocate. her activism began in 1883 when a train conductor forcibly ejected her from the ladies car even though she paid the first-class...