S02 E29 Before Rosa Parks

Seems everyone has heard of Rosa Parks, and rightly so, a young lady of color who refused to give up her seat and move to the back of the bus in Montgomery Alabama. IN the 1950s Her actions helped inspire real changes to the segregation laws that existed in the United States.BUT, there is another…..About a century earlier…..The year was 1854, the American Civil war was still 7 years away. And, though Slavery had been abolished a quarter of a century earlier in New York, society was still heavily segregated.Her name was Elizabeth Jennings. A plucky young school teacher in New Your City.