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Author:

Bay, Mia, author.

Title:

Traveling Black : a story of race and resistance / Mia Bay.

Publisher:

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

391 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

African Americans--History.--History.
African Americans--History.--History.
Segregation in transportation--United States--History.

Notes:

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.

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.

ISBN:

0674979966
9780674979963

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1198018581

LCCN:

2020039186

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

JSPB572 -- Ely Public Library (Ely)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GAAX314 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Peosta (Peosta)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)