A Pioneer Protest: The New Orleans Streetcar Controversy of 1867

ID: 2078
This file appears in: Joseph Guillaume's Audacious Ride

By R. A. Fischer, 1968, in the Journal of Negro History, 53(3), p. 224.

This file appears in: Joseph Guillaume's Audacious Ride

By Kevin J. Brown
On May 4, 1867, Guillaume acted. What happened next is open to some debate. According to the New Orleans Times, at 11:30 a.m. Guillaume hailed a “Whites Only” car number 148 on Love Street, now known…