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==Segregation==
[[Segregation]] of the streetcar system came in [[1905]] via a state law authored by Pensacola representative [[John Campbell Avery]]. Soon after the law was approved by the Florida Legislature, Pensacola's African-American community initiated a boycott of the streetcar system. The streetcar system's management reported on the boycott to the Stone & Webster corporate office:
{{cquote|In Pensacola 90% of the negroes have stopped riding even though the company has not issued an order or intimated anything as to what they intend to do. The negroes have appointed Committees who meet negroes visiting their city at the train and present each one with a button to be work worn in the lapel of the coat. This button bears the single word WALK.|20px|20px|Letter of John E. Hartridge to William H. Tucker, May 28, 1905.<ref>Ortiz, Paul. ''Emancipation Betrayed''. University of California Press, 2005.</ref>}}
However, the Avery law was declared unconstitutional by the Florida Supreme Court a month later. The [[Pensacola City Council]] responded with an ordinance that was