File:Dexter Avenue segregated street cars.jpg

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Description Street cars on Dexter Avenue being shut down for violating city ordinance requiring segregated street cars. In 1906, the Montgomery City Council passed an ordinance requiring blacks and whites to ride on separate streetcars. The Montgomery Traction Company, owner of the streetcars, refused to comply because it would not have been profitable. It would have required them to run more streetcars on their existing routes. On November 23, all the streetcars were locked down in Court Square and the conductors and motormen were arrested. The shutdown lasted two hours while Montgomery Traction got a thirty-day injunction allowing them to operate as usual. A compromise was eventually reached where African Americans would ride in the back of the cars.
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Source Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
Author Hervey W. Laird, Birmingham Age-Herald
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