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In 1974, the city of San Francisco designated eucalyptus trees that Pleasant had planted outside her mansion at the southwest corner of Octavia and Bush streets in San Francisco as a Structure of Merit. [44] The trees and associated plaque are now known as Mary Ellen Pleasant Memorial Park, which is the smallest park in San Francisco. [45]
Mary Ellen Pleasant Memorial Park, Lower Pac Heights When work with the Underground Railroad in New England became too dangerous, Mary Ellen Pleasant moved to San Francisco to work as a cook for ...
Woodworth and his brother were abolitionists, his brother having served in the Atlantic to end the slave trade. A fugitive slave named Mary Ellen Pleasant had come to San Francisco in 1852 aboard the steamer Oregon. Initially she took employment working as a cook and housekeeper at the house belonging to the Case, Heiser & Company, Woodworth's ...
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Mary Ellen Pleasant herself, claimed in 1900 to a friendly reporter, that she was born free, in Philadelphia, and got to Nantucket at about six years old. she claimed she had no memories before Nantucket in that article. Why not take it from her own mouth? She was never a slave and had no memories before Nantucket.
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The Charlotte Brown case paved the way for other cases brought by San Francisco African Americans like William Bowen and Mary Ellen Pleasant that challenged the "whites-only" practices of the privately owned streetcars. [27] [28] In 1893 streetcar segregation was officially outlawed on statewide streetcars by the California legislature. [1] [29]
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