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Why was Elizabeth Jennings ordered off the trolley by the conductor?

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According to City Lab, Jennings was on her way to church when she hopped on a whites-only streetcar in Manhattan. When she defied the conductor's order to get off the streetcar, they forcibly removed her. Enraged, the brave young woman took her case against segregated New York City streetcars to court — and won.

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