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Tag: Caroline Le Count

  • Caroline Le Count’s Visit to Princeton

    By April C. Armstrong *14 and Iliyah Coles ’22 Caroline Le Count, though not so well known today, was a prominent African American activist and educator in Philadelphia in the 19th century. The Philadelphia Citizen recently referred to her as “Philly’s Rosa Parks” because she worked to dismantle streetcar segregation in the city, a goal…