[DOC] [TLE] Mary Ellen Pleasant - Wikipedia [PAR] Mary Ellen Pleasant (born 19 August 1814  1817 - died 4 January 1904) was a 
19th-century ... After the Civil War, she took her battles to the courts in the 1860s 
and won several civil rights victories, one ... Suing over streetcar segregation[edit] 
... after she and two other black women were ejected from a city streetcar in 1866. [DOC] [TLE] Mary Ellen Pleasant - Civil War Women [PAR] Jan 5, 2013 ... Mary Ellen Pleasant was a civil rights activist and entrepreneur who used her ... 
states, including California during the Gold Rush and won significant civil rights 
in the courts, earning the name 'Mother of Civil Rights in California.' Mary ... in 
California streetcars by suing a San Francisco streetcar company for... [DOC] [TLE] Pleasant Imagining: Speculation, Trials & Postmodern Black ... [PAR] Mar 2, 2015 ... The Mother of Civil Rights in California is having her say ... The figure of Mary 
Ellen Pleasant is a challenging one for scholars, biographers, .... up by and 
thrown off of a San Francisco trolley, separate incidents for which she singularly 
sued), the added layer of courtroom drama after civic disobedience... [DOC] [TLE] Black entrepreneur and abolitionist Mary Ellen Pleasant ... - Pinterest [PAR] In 1854 she was told to get off a streetcar and then forcibly removed by the crew 
and .... by boat in 1852 and would become the Mother of Civil Rights in 
California." "Born a slave on the East Coast, Mary Ellen Pleasant took refuge in 
California ...... sued the municipal railway in 1866 after ejection due to her color. 
She won. [DOC] [TLE] Black entrepreneur and abolitionist Mary Ellen Pleasant ... - Pinterest [PAR] Black entrepreneur and abolitionist Mary Ellen Pleasant was born in 1812. ... 
during the Gold Rush and is known as the Mother of Civil Rights in California. ... 
after she insisted on her right to ride on a New York City streetcar in 1854... yes, 
you ... She refused to get off the bus, sued and won, 100 years before Parks was 
born! [DOC] [TLE] Black entrepreneur and abolitionist Mary Ellen Pleasant helped to ... [PAR] She was known as the Mother of Civil Rights in California. .... She refused to get 
off the bus, sued and won, 100 years before Parks was born! ... after insisting on 
her right to ride on an availableNew York City streetcar in .... 1866: 27-year-old 
Octavius Catto led the fight to desegregate Philadelphia's horse-drawn streetcars
. [DOC] [TLE] Black entrepreneur and abolitionist Mary Ellen Pleasant ... - Pinterest [PAR] Elizabeth Jennings Graham was a black woman who lived in New York City. In 
1854 she was told to get off a streetcar and then forcibly removed by the crew 
and a ..... by boat in 1852 and would become the Mother of Civil Rights in 
California." "Born a slave on the East Coast, Mary Ellen Pleasant took refuge in 
California. [DOC] [TLE] Timeline Black History - Timelines of History [PAR] Rumors of a conspiracy among slaves and poor whites in New York City to seize 
control led to a ...... "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was first published in book form after 
being serialized. ..... 1866 Mary Ellen Pleasant was kicked off a streetcar in San 
Francisco and began ..... Her monument reads Mother of Civil Rights in 
California." [DOC] [TLE] Women's History Month - Prince.org [PAR] Mar 1, 2008 ... Immediately, black women activists who had for years urged city officials to ... 
One woman pulled stone after stone from the rubble. .... or only a pleasant legend
, it is an undisputable fact that Mary Ann Shadd, ... who threw rocks at the 
windows of the house where she was living. ..... Meet Mary Ellen Pleasant [DOC] [TLE] African American Citywide Historic Context Statement [PAR] (City) a grant for the preparation of a historic context statement (herein ..... Mary 
Ellen Pleasant Trees, located at the southwest corner of Octavia and Bush 
Streets, .... and steep, snowbound mountain ranges, overland travel took off after 
...... The only thing I had to do was get a job, and being

Question: In 1866 Mary Ellen Pleasant, "Mother of Civil Rights in California", sued & won after being thrown off this city's streetcar
Answer: San Francisco