Myriad Black Americans anonymously pushing back also contributed to the struggle for equal rights. The discrimination Marjorie Stewart Joyner faced...formed the interwoven fabric of her life.
Marjorie Stewart Joyner visits an exhibit of her life on display at the A. Montgomery Ward Gallery at the University of Illinois at Chicago on Feb. 15, 1985.
She sued the Burlington-Rock Island Railroad Co. after that train ride with a corpse for a traveling companion. It was a long shot, because the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that separate but equal facilities were legal. Installed in Marjorie’s Beauty Shop in the basement of her and husband’s home at 5607 S. Wabash Ave., the contraption was instantly popular.
But Joyner found that the techniques she learned at Moler were designed for white women and didn’t work when she tried them on her mother-in-law. “I washed her hair and it just shriveled up,” Joyner later recalled in a Chicago Defender story. “I didn’t know what to do.” Based on the response, she gave a deposit of $20,000 in cash on the group’s tickets to a clerk at a steamship company’s office, as the Tribune noted. “The man was so shocked,” she reports, “that I think he felt I was having a pipe dream.”The trip was widely publicized and led to one unexpected consequence. “The white schools said that if they had known we had all of that money, they would have let us come and learn at night,” Joyner recalled.
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