As of , about 2, of the X-patents have been recovered. Much of his apparently substantial earnings from the invention went towards the fight for abolition. His daughter Elizabeth, a schoolteacher, rose to national attention in when she boarded a whites-only horse-drawn streetcar in New York and refused to get off, hanging on to the window frame when the conductor tried to toss her out.
A letter she wrote about the incident was published in several abolitionist papers, and her father hired a lawyer to fight the streetcar company.
Arthur, who would go on to become president in Though free black Americans like Jennings were free to patent their inventions, in practice obtaining a patent was difficult and expensive. She resisted.
The conductor got her down on the platform, jammed her bonnet, soiled her dress and injured her person. Quite a crowd gathered, but she effectually resisted. Finally, after the car had gone on further, with the aid of a policeman they succeeded in removing her. Her story was publicized by Frederick Douglass , and received national attention. Because of her father's prominence and wealth, she was able to obtain the best legal representation and hired the law firm of Culver, Parker, and Arthur to sue the bus company and was represented in court by a young attorney named Chester Arthur , who would go on to become the 21st President of the United States.
Jennings would ultimately win her case in front of the Brooklyn Circuit Court in The next day, the Third Avenue Railroad Company ordered its cars desegregated. There is a well-documented trend of growth among black or African American female medical school graduates. While most African Americans were part of the hardworking labor forces in agriculture and industry, a small percentage were hard at work creating inventions that helped transform America.
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After the incident, Jennings organized a movement against racial segregation in public transit in the city; the services were provided by private companies. The same year, Jennings was one of the founders of the Legal Rights Association, a group that organized challenges to discrimination and segregation and gained legal representation to take cases to court. Jennings died just a few years later in , which was itself just a few years before the practice he so reviled—enslavement—was abolished.
A decade after Elizabeth Jennings won her case, all New York City streetcar companies stopped practicing segregation. Jennings and his daughter had a hand in the effort to desegregate public facilities, a movement that lasted well into the Civil Rights Era a century later. Indeed, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
And the "dry-scouring" process Jennings invented is essentially the same method used by dry cleaning businesses worldwide to this day. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile.
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