Barbara Pope Was a Civil Rights Activist Who Refused to Give Up Her Seat on a Segregated Train
TEEN VOGUE _ BY ROB DEHART, TUDOR PLACE CURATOR
Almost 50 years before Rosa Parks defied segregation laws on an Alabama bus, another civil rights activist, Barbara Pope, refused to leave the “whites only” compartment of a passenger train, sued the railroad, and won. Her bold act had a ripple effect on the Civil Rights Movement, changing the strategy of activists working to undo Jim Crow-era segregation in the 20th century.
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