Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Commuters have bemoaned Philly’s public transit for decades − in 1967, a librarian got the city to listen

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Menika Dirkson, Associate Professor of History, Morgan State University

On April 13, 1967, around 1:30 p.m., Lt. Joseph Larkin of the Philadelphia Police Department’s subway unit visited the Philadelphia High School for Girls to interview the school’s librarian, 61-year-old Miriam S. Axelrod.

Axelrod had written a letter to Mayor James H.J. Tate about poor conditions on Philadelphia’s Broad Street Line subway. In her letter, she stated that the escalators in the subway concourse of the Walnut-Locust station were out of operation for several weeks…

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