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Lizzie Demands a Seat!: Elizabeth Jennings Fights for Streetcar Rights
Beth Anderson
Illustrator: E.B. Lewis
Ages: 9+
Published: 2020
Publisher: Boyds Mills & Kane/Calkins Creek
ISBN: 978-1-62979-939-1
Keywords: segregation, fighting for equality, self-advocacy, black history, women's history
In 1854, African American Elizabeth Jennings challenges the seating on a whites only New York streetcar. Bold watercolor illustrations.