- Collection:
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Title:
- Street cars on Dexter Avenue being shut down for violating city ordinance requiring segregated street cars.
- Creator:
- Laird, Hervey W., Birmingham Age-Herald
- Publisher:
- Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130
- Date of Original:
- 1906-11-23
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Buildings
Business
Industries
Street-railroads
Streets
Transportation
Montgomery (Ala.)
Montgomery County (Ala.) - Location:
- United States, Alabama, 32.75041, -86.75026
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- In 1906, the Montgomery City Council passed an ordinance requiring blacks and whites to ride on separate streetcars. The Montgomery Traction Company, owner of the streetcars, refused to comply because it would not have been profitable. It would have required them to run more streetcars on their existing routes. On November 23, all the streetcars were locked down in Court Square and the conductors and motormen were arrested. The shutdown lasted two hours while Montgomery Traction got a thirty-day injunction allowing them to operate as usual. A compromise was eventually reached where African Americans would ride in the back of the cars.
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/photo/id/3304
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/photo:3304/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- This material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. Though ADAH has physical ownership of the material in its collections, in some cases we may not own the copyright to the material. It is the patron's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in our collections.
- Original Collection:
- Alabama. Department of Archives and History
Alabama Department of Archives and History photographs collection - places vertical file
Box 21 - Contributing Institution:
- Alabama. Department of Archives and History
- Rights:
-
Street cars on Dexter Avenue being shut down for violating city ordinance requiring segregated street cars.
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