Project Gutenberg 2020-02-28 Public domain in the USA. 72 Hunt, Benjamin P. (Benjamin Peter) 1808 Hunt, B. P. (Benjamin Peter) Why Colored People in Philadelphia Are Excluded from the Street Cars Reading ease score: 49.1 (College-level). Difficult to read. Produced by hekula03, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) "Why Colored People in Philadelphia Are Excluded from the Street Cars" by Hunt is a historical account written in the mid-19th century. This book addresses the systemic racial discrimination faced by Black individuals in Philadelphia, particularly the persistent exclusion from public streetcars. It critically examines the socio-political climate of the time, exploring the legal and societal barriers impeding racial equality. In the text, Hunt details the efforts made by a committee advocating for the rights of colored people to access the streetcars, highlighting their challenges with local authorities, public sentiment, and the legal system. The book recounts various cases of ejection and violence faced by Black individuals when attempting to use public transportation, further illustrating the broader societal prejudices and injustices they encountered. Hunt's work emphasizes that this exclusion reflects a larger moral failing and highlights the necessity for social reform towards racial equality. It serves as a poignant critique of both public attitudes and legislative inaction that perpetuated discrimination during this period. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en United States -- Race relations Segregation in transportation -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia E151 Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - American Browsing: Politics 87922 87926 2024-09-25T10:20:10.540884 2023-09-26T09:32:07.635004 text/html text/html 85104 2020-02-28T11:05:32 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 70059 2024-09-25T10:20:12.524869 application/epub+zip 69459 2024-09-25T10:20:10.884881 application/epub+zip 69458 2024-09-25T10:20:10.702879 application/epub+zip 101515 2024-09-25T10:20:14.008938 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 91563 2024-09-25T10:20:12.305941 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 91791 2022-09-27T19:29:56.668450 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 79239 2023-09-26T09:32:07.532004 text/plain 18698 2024-09-25T10:20:14.132873 application/rdf+xml 6480 2024-09-25T10:20:10.757878 image/jpeg 1406 2024-09-25T10:20:10.730870 image/jpeg 57859 2024-09-25T10:20:10.551880 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog