There was a Rosa Parks before Rosa Parks.

There was a Rosa Parks before Rosa Parks, her name was Elizabeth Jennings,who as faded away in the cobwebs of history.
In different era, public Transition was segregated not only in the South, but even in places like New York City. Elizabeth Jennings would have none of it, Ms Jennings was an African American school teacher, who on Sunday 7/16/1850 going to church hailed the first street car she that come along, the conductor refused to admit her, but Jennings say she right to ride the car. A fight purse much anger in the African American community. The Black Legal Rights Association, took up the cause and hirer the prestige Law Firm of Culver, Parker, who assigned the case to a very inexperience lawyer,named Chester Arthur, who later would become the President of United States.
Well to everyones surprise Arhur won the case on 2/22/1855 and Jennings won $250 in damages.
This case marked the beginning of end of segregation in city's transportion system. Hencforth, we should never forget the brave woman who took on the system and won her fight for civil rights a hundred years before Rosa Parks.