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1900. In many Southern states there are laws compelling the railroad companies to run on their trains separate cars for colored people,… which are called “Jim-Crow” cars.—Morning Leader, Dec. 19. (N.E.D.)
1906. There were no “Jim Crow” cars, no sleepers and no smokers, and all passengers were carried free of charge [on the “Underground Railroad”]. It was a railroad without stockholders, but it had innumerable directors. No dividends were paid except to passengers, and such dividends were in the form of certificates of freedom from bondage.—B. Washington, ‘Frederick Douglass,’ p. 159.
1910. Washington, May 31.—An attempt to get the Supreme Court of the United States to pass on the authority of common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to make “Jim Crow” regulations, met with failure to-day when the court dismissed the so-called Chiles appeal.—N.Y. Evening Post, June 2.
