Segregation & public facilities
Segregated streetcars, and the boycott that answered them
Announced 17 April 1904; boycott from 19 April 1904; segregation made compulsory by state law in 1906The Richmond streetcar lines, from Broad Street into Jackson Ward, VA
In April 1904 the Virginia Passenger and Power Company put Black passengers at the back of Richmond's streetcars - which the new state law permitted but did not require. Richmond's Black residents stopped riding, and by mid-May most of them were walking.
The marker sits at the centre of the place named, because the records do not fix a single spot.