RACE BIAS IN TAXIS
N.Y. Drivers Warned (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) NEW YORK. Dec. 28. New York City’s taxi drivers were yesterday warned not to discriminate against passengers on racial grounds.
In a letter to the owners of 100 taxi firms and their drivers, the chairman of the the City Commission on Human Rights (Mr Stanley Lowell) said: “You may not discriminate against any orderly person wishing to hire a cab.” An official said the commission had received informal complaints from about two dozen Negroes saying they had difficulty in hailing a cab and in two recent cases the driver, recognising a would-be passenger as a Negro, sped away and injured the person trying to enter the taxi.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30635, 29 December 1964, Page 9
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