In , an elderly Pleasant dictated her autobiography to the journalist Sam Davis. Because she was running behind one Sunday morning, Elizabeth Jennings turned out to be a century ahead of her time. She was a teacher in her 20s, on her way to the First Colored American Congregational Church in Lower Manhattan, where she was the regular organist, when a conductor ordered her off a horse-drawn Third Avenue trolley and told her to wait for a car reserved for black passengers.
As more rural Southerners arrived in the city, the teeming Manhattan slums in which African-Americans were living had become the most densely populated streets in the city, nearly 5, people per block, according to one count, as landlords rented almost exclusively to white tenants. When Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in , becoming the first African-American player in modern major league baseball, he was not only a trailblazer in the sports world, but an inspiring figure in the modern civil rights movement.
But Robinson was not the first ballplayer in the long history of big league baseball known to be an African-American. That distinction belongs to Moses Fleetwood Walker. Read more and get tickets. Visit timesevents. Please upgrade your browser. Site Navigation Site Mobile Navigation. Overlooked These remarkable black men and women never received obituaries in The New York Times — until now.
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