The driver of the coach makes it known that he will “have no damned nigger” on his stage. The article includes this comment on the incident: “Such conduct deserves the…
Category: <span>Discrimination</span>
With a title, Rebuke of the Eastern Railroad Company, for their treatment of Colored Passengers, there is a report here of a debate in the House, relative to a bill…
A letter from George Bradburn, of Nantucket. He is the legislator who wanted to rebuke the Eastern Railroad Company. Now he tells of similar discriminatory practice on the Boston and…
September 16, 1842 An item from the Philadelphia Ledger, titled, Can’t it be Corrected? “It is a very great injury to the black population of the city, that so many…
October 7, 1842 An item from New Bedford, Sept 26, signed by Henry Hurd, describes an incident of discrimination against Mr. Richard Johnson and daughter, at “the depot of the…
April 28, 1843 Here Remond tells of having used private conveyance at heavy expense, in order to avoid Jim Crow cars on the Salem and Boston road. Then he was…
November 15, 1844 An article from the British and Foreign A.S. Reporter, tells of the exclusion of a colored gentleman, who nevertheless, “had been allowed to pay full fare”, from…
May 14, 1847 Several articles tell the story and comment on “A British Bow to An American Prejudice”. Douglass was denied his “just rights and privileges on board of the…
June 23, 1848 Here is an item about prejudice at the Charlestown dry dock. Dissatisfaction arose among a portion of the workmen “because two colored men, (both fugitives from slavery),…
July 14, 1848 A letter from Garnet describes the discrimination he experienced on a train going to Niagara Falls. This includes physical assault …. “I am suffering greatly from my…
August 1, 1851 William P. Powell, writes to Garrison, telling of being refused accommodations at the Samoset House, in Plymouth. Garrison comments that Powell is a highly respected citizen of…
June 10, 1853 Nell, Sarah Remond, and Caroline Putnam are denied entrance to an opera, though they have tickets. A court case is heard by Judge Russell, who finds against…
September 2, 1853 A letter to Garrison is signed, “A Regular Theater-Goer”. It decries that the Howard Athenaeum admits colored persons only to the Gallery. ” by all that is…
January 20, 1860 Sarah P. Remond, writing from London, describes how her sister, Mrs. Putnam, and friends had bought first-class tickets from Boston to Liverpool, but were not allowed to…
January 20, 1860 At a recent session of the Legislature there was an attempt to remove the word ‘white’ from the militia law. The Governor, (Banks), vetoed the measure. The…
March 6, 1863 A brief notice that the colored men of Michigan have met in Convention, and appointed a committee to visit with the Legislature, and urge removal of the…
March 20, 1863 A brief article commends Senator Sumner, who moved an amendment to a question being considered about the incorporation of a horse railroad company in the District of…
March 4, 1864 A brief notice from the N.Y. Tribune indicates that the Board of Directors of the Fourth Ave Line of the City Railroad “have rescinded their order excluding…
May 8, 1865 Sella Martin writes from New York to the Editors of the Evening Post. He protests that colored people will not be included in funeral procession, from Union…
September 1, 1865 There is a brief article from a correspondent of the Philadelphia Christian Reader, commenting “that the colored citizens are making commendable progress in commercial, moral, social, religious…