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| Keywords: Dexter Avenue segregated street cars.jpg Street cars on Dexter Avenue being shut down for violating city ordinance requiring segregated street cars In 1906 the Montgomery City Council passed an ordinance requiring blacks and whites to ride on separate streetcars The Montgomery Traction Company owner of the streetcars refused to comply because it would not have been profitable It would have required them to run more streetcars on their existing routes On November 23 all the streetcars were locked down in Court Square and the conductors and motormen were arrested The shutdown lasted two hours while Montgomery Traction got a thirty-day injunction allowing them to operate as usual A compromise was eventually reached where African Americans would ride in the back of the cars http //216 226 178 196/cdm4/item_viewer php CISOROOT /photo CISOPTR 3304 Alabama Dept of Archives and History 1906-11-23 Hervey W Laird Birmingham Age-Herald PD-old 1906 in Alabama Montgomery Alabama in the 1900s History of civil rights in the United States 1906 Racial segregation in the United States 1906 Trams in Alabama 1906 1906 in tram transport Black and white photographs of trams | ||||
