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Jan 19, 2020

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The train was moving, but she was not.

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NAACP attorney Sherrilyn Ifill was asked to get up and move from her seat on an Amtrak train Friday night, she announced in a tweet. Ifill said a junior conductor told her there were ”other people coming who she wants to give this seat.”

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NAACP attorney Sherrilyn Ifill was asked to get up and move from her seat on an Amtrak train Friday night. (Twitter)

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Ifill “made it clear" she was uninterested in moving in the general admission, largely empty car.

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She was on her way from Washington D.C. to Baltimore when the conductor made the request.

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What really disturbs me is how someone with this authority can just entirely make up something so ridiculous and approach a customer in this way. I did wonder when she was carrying on - how far will I take this? And the immediate answer in my mind was “all the way.”

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Ifill said that she remained in her seat until leaving the train in Baltimore, where she told the head conductor about what happened.

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“I laid out the facts and made clear that I know [that] it is absolutely contrary to policy and unacceptable to pick one passenger from an unassigned seat and demand she move. Lead conductor (man) just has his mouth open. The woman agent/conductor now drops her head,” Ifill wrote in one explanatory tweet. She said the lead conductor admitted he had “no explanation” for the request and apologized.

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After calling out Amtrak several times on Twitter, Ifill received an official apology from the company Saturday.

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While Ifill, president and director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, passed on the obvious Rosa Parks comparison herself, several followers made it for her.

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She did say that she'd be willing to give up her seat for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

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