Amtrak has apologized to a prominent African American civil rights attorney who said she was asked by a conductor to surrender her seat on a train just before the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend
Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said on Twitter the incident occurred Friday after she boarded the train in Washington, D.C. and was asked to move from her unassigned seat by a conductor who said she had"other people coming."Ifill, who was traveling to Baltimore, refused to give up her seat and posted a series of widely shared tweets about the encounter.
— Sherrilyn Ifill January 17, 2020 Ifill said the conductor told her she had passengers"getting on at other stops." After Ifill responded that she was getting off at the next stop, she said the conductor told her,"follow me. I've found a seat for you."Ifill said she stayed put. Once the train reached Baltimore Ifill said she spoke to a lead conductor and the conductor in question, who then said"she wanted to keep empty seats at the front.
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