Traveling Black : a story of race and resistance /
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...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
[2021]
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Table of 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.