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Amy Hill Hearth

American Writer Specializing in Historical Fiction, Biographies, and Oral Histories. 117-Week New York Times Bestselling Author with the Delany Sisters of the oral history book Having Our Say. Honors include a Peabody Award, two American Library Association Notable Books, and the Septima Clark "Women in Literature" Award from the National Council for the Social Studies.

 
 
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Story of Elizabeth Jennings in “Streetcar to Justice” Is a Shock to Many

March 26, 2018
Slavery and Jim Crow in the Northern states?

Signs for “Colored” Riders in Manhattan?!

A slave market in New York City?!

That’s just a portion of the back-story I included in my new biography of Elizabeth Jennings, a black schoolteacher who refused to leave a segregated streetcar in Manhattan in 1854, setting into motion  Read More 
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