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Traveling Black : a story of race and resistance
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Title
Traveling Black : a story of race and resistance / Mia Bay.
ISBN
9780674979963
0674979966
Publication
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021.
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
391 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary
"What was it like to travel while Black under Jim Crow? Mia Bay brings this dramatic history to life. With gripping stories and a close eye on the rail, bus, and airline operators who implemented segregation, she shows why access to unrestricted mobility has been central to the Black freedom struggle since Reconstruction and remains so today"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 05, 2021
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The road to Plessy: race, class, and gender on nineteenth-century common carriers
Traveling by train: the Jim Crow car
Traveling by car: race on the road in the automotive age
Traveling by bus: from the Jim Crow car to the back of the bus
Traveling by plane: segregation in the age of aviation
Traveling for civil rights: the long fight to outlaw transportation segregation
Traveling for freedom: the desegregation of American transportation
Epilogue: #Black Travel Matters.
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