In 1944, as World War II continued to rage on, Philadelphia was one of our nation’s largest war production sources. The Philadelphia Transportation Company (PTC) was key to war production in that hundreds of thousands of workers relied on PTC for transportation to work each day. On August 1, 1944, white transit workers went on […]

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