Trolley Museum Celebrates Black History Month: Special Exhibit—Jim Crow on Streetcars visit website

The National Capital Trolley Museum celebrates Black History Month with a special exhibit, Jim Crow on Streetcars, telling the stories of both 19th and 20th century efforts to establish racially segregated transit and to resist its establishment. Washingtons street cars were not segregated, and provided African Americans some relief from the general rule in the City which imposed separate schools, accommodations, and communities and limited employment opportunities. That said, Capital Transit Company resisted hiring African Americans as streetcar and bus operators well into the 1960s. Come learn how discrimination in public transit was deliberately imposed, and slowly overcome.