That Jim Crow Car Law

A black woman is removed from her train car after purchasing a first class train ticket; she files a lawsuit for the “damages.”

Cincinnati, February 25, - Minnie Myers, colored, has sued the Louisville & Nashville for $25,000 damages. Last June she bought a first class ticket from Cincinnati to Lexington, Ky. When the station over the river at Covington, Ky., was reached she was removed from the ladies car to the one partitioned off for the colored people.

“That Jim Crow Car Law,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed January 20, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/1376.