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Commuters have bemoaned Philly’s public transit for decades − in 1967, a librarian got the city to listen

  • Written by Menika Dirkson, Associate Professor of History, Morgan State University
imageA SEPTA train moves along the Market-Frankford Line in West Philadelphia.AP Photo/Matt Rourke

On April 13, 1967, around 1:30 p.m., Lt. Joseph Larkin of the Philadelphia Police Department’s subway unit visited the Philadelphia High School for Girls to interview the school’s librarian, 61-year-old Miriam S. Axelrod.

Axelrod had written a...

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