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Amy Hill Hearth

Peabody Award Winner and New York Times Bestselling Author best known for Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years 

 
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Story of Elizabeth Jennings in “Streetcar to Justice” Is a Shock to Many

March 26, 2018
Slavery and Jim Crow in the Northern states?

Signs for “Colored” Riders in Manhattan?!

A slave market in New York City?!

That’s just a portion of the back-story I included in my new biography of Elizabeth Jennings, a black schoolteacher who refused to leave a segregated streetcar in Manhattan in 1854, setting into motion  Read More 
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