Agenda - 11-01-2022; 5-c - 2022 Orange County Transit Plan Update

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EQ transit equity. transit • equity etu 4(t s not imply sameness . ilt on proportionality u Aquit and based on need — the transportation needs of some Etter t n groups are more significant than others , even if they are not the majority of those using i ? transportation This section provides an overview of the concept of "transit equity," its origins in the Civil Rights Movement, and the commitments needed to ensure ALL citizens benefit from investments in public transportation. ronsit equity and transitjustice may be recent s additions to the transportation lexicon but . they are not new concepts to marginalized or socially vulnerable groups. For residents identifying in COLORED as Black,African American,or People of Color,transit '- FWAITINGROOM equity and transitjustice hold even deeper meaning because they are inextricably linked to the history PRIVATE. •. .PROPERTY NG Nfi of the American Civil Rights Movement when the public battles forcing the end of legal segregation ' were waged on two primary fronts - lunch counters rf and transit vehicles. ' Most Americans are familiar with Rosa Parks' I ` strategically publicized refusal to relinquish her seat to a white rider on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. But Parks" story is just one element of a 45 sustained, organized campaign to end segregation At the bus station in Durham,"1940 by Jock Delano.Library of Congress on public transportation and in other public and private settings. In fact, the first organized transit boycott in the South occurred over two years before about the author. Parks"protest, in Baton Rouge. Content ••th the "Equity Connections" and this The legal basis for racial segregation was initially chapter were adapted from a reportauthored • Orange County codified when Homer Plessy was charged with by - past president of boarding a "whites only" railroad car, violating New University,an award-winning - • - • an activist anthropologist Orleans" "Separate Car Act" of 1890. Plessy fought who has committed her life and -r to helping o - his case all the way to the US Supreme Court who the world. She holds the PhD and MA in Anthropologyand the ruled that segregation based on race was not Masters of - English, both from the University unconstitutional if each race was provided facilities of Massachusetts ng - Principal that were ""separate but equal" (Plessy v. FergusonSolutions • • _ specializeshelping 1896). The "separate but equal doctrine" upheld others • immediate , • sustainable emerging , nd and enforced legal discrimination and segregation urgent offers support expert long into the 20th century, until it was overturned in witness, leadership consultant and guru, speaker/facilitator, 1956 (Gayle v. Browder) as a direct result of Parks' writer/editor, executive coach, researcher/evaluator, and diversity direct action and the subsequent Montgomery Bus Boycott.. _•