Caroline LeCount, a noted civil rights activist, in March 1867 confronted a trolley driver and personally enforced the integration of the city's public transportation.
William Lighter, board member and chair of the property committee of Historic Eden Cemetery, speaks at the unveiling of a tombstone for Caroline LeCount Saturday.It was Election Day 1871, the first election since the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Civil rights activist Octavius V. Catto went to vote and found himself facing a white mob, who had initiated a riot to suppress the African American vote. He was fatally shot near his home on South Street.
Black women, seeking to bring supplies and health care to Black Civil War soldiers recuperating at Camp William Penn, the nation’s first training ground for Black troops located in the LaMott area of Cheltenham, would be beaten and thrown off the trolleys.After white passengers in the city voted to continue racial restriction on the trolley cars, Catto went to Harrisburg. The state made the segregated trolley systems illegal in 1867.
“When you talk about grassroots movements and how they start, I believe women are behind most grassroots movements,” said William J. Lighter, Jr. , member of the Historic Eden Cemetery board.She did continue her civil rights and education efforts. LeCount was principal at the segregated Ohio Street School for 50 years. She was noted for defending African American teachers against charges of incompetence by noting they had to get higher scores on the teaching exam than their White peers.
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