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 since Reconstruction and remains so today.

About the author

Mia Bay is the author of To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells and The White Image in the Black Mind, and coauthor of Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans, with Documents. She is Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Mia Bay, Bay Mia
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9780674278622
• ISBN: 978-0-674-27862-2
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Social & cultural history, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, LAW / Transportation, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Civil rights & citizenship, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Black & Asian Studies, Civics and citizenship, HISTORY / African American & Black, transport law