Streetcar to Justice: How Elizabeth Jennings Won the Right to Ride in New York
Author: Hearth, Amy Hill
Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.7
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
16694
Points per Word
0.00018
Page Count
143
Points per Page
0.020979
Description
One hundred years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Elizabeth Jennings's refusal to leave a segregated streetcar in the Five Points neighborhood of Manhattan set into motion a major court case in New York.