Project Gutenberg 2020-02-28 Public domain in the USA. 71 Hunt, Benjamin P. (Benjamin Peter) 1808 Hunt, B. P. (Benjamin Peter) Why Colored People in Philadelphia Are Excluded from the Street Cars Produced by hekula03, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) "Why Colored People in Philadelphia Are Excluded from the Street Cars" by Hunt is a historical account written in the mid-19th century. This book addresses the systemic racial discrimination faced by Black individuals in Philadelphia, particularly the persistent exclusion from public streetcars. It critically examines the socio-political climate of the time, exploring the legal and societal barriers impeding racial equality. In the text, Hunt details the efforts made by a committee advocating for the rights of colored people to access the streetcars, highlighting their challenges with local authorities, public sentiment, and the legal system. The book recounts various cases of ejection and violence faced by Black individuals when attempting to use public transportation, further illustrating the broader societal prejudices and injustices they encountered. Hunt's work emphasizes that this exclusion reflects a larger moral failing and highlights the necessity for social reform towards racial equality. It serves as a poignant critique of both public attitudes and legislative inaction that perpetuated discrimination during this period. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 49.1 (College-level). Difficult to read. en United States -- Race relations Segregation in transportation -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia E151 Text Category: History - American Category: History - Modern (1750+) Category: Sociology Category: Politics 88102 2025-06-24T11:10:27.073092 text/html 64549 2024-10-17T16:47:27 text/html 70153 2025-06-24T11:10:28.854086 application/epub+zip 69468 2025-06-24T11:10:27.412076 application/epub+zip 69468 2025-06-24T11:10:27.228074 application/epub+zip 101553 2025-06-24T11:10:30.175065 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 91581 2025-06-24T11:10:28.669056 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 91791 2022-09-27T19:29:56.668450 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 79239 2023-09-26T09:32:07.532004 text/plain 59113 2024-10-17T16:47:27 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15947 2025-06-24T11:10:30.299067 application/rdf+xml 6480 2025-06-24T11:10:27.288081 image/jpeg 1406 2025-06-24T11:10:27.259079 image/jpeg 57910 2025-06-24T11:10:27.083083 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog