Caroline LeCount fought to desegregate Philly streetcars
WHYY By Left: Rosa Parks honored during SEPTA ceremony (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) Right: Caroline LeCount (Courtesy of Transportationhistory.org) A specially decorated bus sat parked in front of SEPTA headquarters, with a cutout of civil rights hero Rosa Parks on a front seat inside. The display is a Black History Month celebration honoring her refusal to give up her seat to a white man in the Jim Crow South that led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a major moment in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. “This is just the first of many events and activities and discussions that we wi...
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