became Elizabeth Jennings Graham) served as organist for her congregation. Becoming a crusader for equal rights wasn’t on her mind; she just needed to lead the choir in rehearsal before services ...

The activists who will be honored on Monday include Elizabeth Jennings Graham, whose work led to the eventual desegregation of all New York City transit systems, Rosa Parks, a civil rights icon ...

By 1860, all of the city’s street and rail cars were desegregated…and Elizabeth Jennings had married Charles Graham. She was still teaching in New York’s African-American schools.

A century before Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Elizabeth Jennings Graham defied the racial segregation of public transit in New York City. On July 16 ...

The Billie Holiday monument will stand near Queens Borough Hall. Elizabeth Jennings Graham, an African-American schoolteacher and civil rights activist, played a major role in the desegregation of ...

Black activist Elizabeth Jennings Graham’s monument will be erected at Grand Central Terminal, far from where she was kicked off a streetcar at Chatham and Pearl Streets in Lower Manhattan in 1854.

Ever heard of Vaughn Meader? What about Lois Weber? Elizabeth Jennings Graham? These individuals all played an important role in history. And Mo Rocca wants us to remember them. Ever heard of ...

The Citizen is publishing a weekly profile series on influential African-American New Yorkers as part of the Newspapers in Education program. Today's feature is about Elizabeth Jennings Graham.

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(Via Creative Commons) Four more legendary New York women are set to be honored with permanent statues around the city: Billie Holiday, Elizabeth Jennings Graham, Dr. Helen Rodríguez Trías ...

Statues of the four women — Billie Holiday, Helen Rodríguez Trías, Elizabeth Jennings Graham and Katherine Walker — will be placed in the boroughs they once called home. Once the statues are ...