An elderly Black woman witnessed young Jerome Smith, just 10 years old at the time, boldly snatching down a Jim Crow divider on a New Orleans streetcar, a symbol of the segregation that oppressed their community. Seemingly shocked and upset by his defiance, she slapped him.  She also promised the angry white conductor and passengers [...]

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