Civil Rights
Feb. 9, 2007
Before Rosa Parks
FORUM COLUMN - By Elaine Elinson - Nearly a century before Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus, Charlotte Brown made a mark on California law by fighting segregation on San Francisco's streetcars.
By Elaine Elinson
When young Charlotte Brown refused a San Francisco streetcar conductor's demand to disembark because "colored persons were not allowed to ride," she faced a social climate nearly as hostile as that faced by Rosa Parks in Montgomery, Ala., in 1954.
But Brown's challenge came nearly a century earlier - on April 17, 1863. Th...
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