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Before There Was Rosa Parks There Was Elizabeth Jennings: The Story of America's First Freedom Rider

Before There Was Rosa Parks There Was Elizabeth Jennings: The Story of America's First Freedom Rider

Update: 2025-01-14
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On this episode of Our American Stories, 100 years before Rosa Parks refused to leave her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Elizabeth Jennings refused to leave hers in New York City. Jerry Mikorenda, author of America's First Freedom Rider, tells the remarkable story of the event desegregating NYC transportation before the Civil War, the Civil Rights Movement, and the abolition of slavery.

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