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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--RECONSTRUCTION.) [KELLEY, WILLIAM DARRAH.] Why Colored People in Philadelphia are Excluded from the Street Cars. 27 pages. 8vo, original printed buff wrappers, short closed tear to the rear cover. An exceptional copy, bound in modern marbled paper-covered boards with morocco spine label. Philadelphia: Benjamin C. Bacon,1866
first edition, rare and important. "January 7, 1866 was reputed to be the coldest day ever known in Philadelphia; the thermometer at the Merchants' Exchange fell to eighteen below zero. This was no colder than the reception of the Negro veterans of the War who found that they had been permitted to serve in the army, but could not ride on the trolleys in Philadelphia. Some violence, but much embarrassment followed" [LCP 1553-1903, #172]. After appeals to "Liberality, Benevolence and love of Freedom" had fallen on deaf ears, lawyer and abolitionist Horace Binney wrote to the capital: "Colored people pay more taxes here than is paid by the same class in any other Northern city." Finally, the Legislature in Harrisburg, no friend of the Negro or Philadelphia, ruled that Negroes could ride the trolleys in the City of Brotherly Love. The irony of this act of desegregation was that Harrisburg did this to spite Philadelphia liberals, not out of altruism. LCP Negro History, 1553-1903, #172; Blockson, 4375; Afro-Americana, 5505.
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