Why Colored People in Philadelphia Are Excluded from the Street Cars

Hunt, Benjamin P. (Benjamin Peter) · 1848

PHILADELPHIA: MERRIHEW & SON, PRINTERS, No. 243 Arch Street, below Third St. 1866. Some remarks lately communicated to the New York Anti-Slavery Standard, on the continued exclusion of colored people from our street cars, leave the impression that no efforts have been made here to procure for this class of people admission to these cars. This is incorrect. It will be found on inquiry, that a Committee, consisting of some twenty-five or thirty gentlemen, appointed at a public meeting, in January of last year, to effect, if possible, this object, is still in existence. This Committee is evidently somewhat slow. No report of its proceedings has yet been published, and the only reason suggested…

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