Streetcar to Justice: How Elizabeth Jennings Won the Right to Ride in New York
by Hearth, Amy Hill
ALA Notable/Best BooksBiographies/AutobiographiesU.S.Black PeopleJunior Library Guild SelectionMinority Rights
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AR Book Level
7.7
AR Points
3
Word Count
16,694
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Nonfiction
AR Quiz #
193507 EN
About this book
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.
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