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Traveling Black : a story of race and resistance, Mia Bay

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  • "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"--
  • "A riveting, character-rich account of racial segregation in America that reveals just how central travel restrictions were to the creation of Jim Crow laws--and why "traveling Black" has been at the heart of the quest for racial justice ever since. Why have white supremacists and Black activists been so focused on Black mobility? From Plessy v. Ferguson to #DrivingWhileBlack, African Americans have fought for over a century to move freely around the United States. Curious as to why so many cases contesting the doctrine of "separate but equal" involved trains and buses, Mia Bay went back to the sources with some basic questions: How did travel segregation begin? Why were so many of those who challenged it in court women? How did it move from one form of transport to another, and what was it like to be caught up in this web of contradictory rules? From stagecoaches and trains to buses, cars, and planes, Traveling Black explores when, how, and why racial restrictions took shape and brilliantly portrays what it was like to live with them. "There is not in the world a more disgraceful denial of human brotherhood than the 'Jim Crow' car of the southern United States, " W. E. B. Du Bois famously declared. Bay unearths troves of supporting evidence, rescuing forgotten stories of undaunted passengers who made it back home despite being insulted, stranded, re-routed, or ignored. Black travelers never stopped challenging these humiliations and insisting on justice in the courts. Traveling Black upends our understanding of Black resistance, documenting a sustained fight that falls outside the traditional boundaries of the civil rights movement. A masterpiece of scholarly and human insight, this book helps explain why the long, unfinished journey to racial equality so often takes place on the road." -- Publisher's description
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
391 pages
Contents
  • The road to Plessy: how travel segregation took shape
  • 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
Isbn
9780674979963
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Traveling Black : a story of race and resistance
Title
Traveling Black
Title remainder
a story of race and resistance
Statement of responsibility
Mia Bay
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
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"--
  • "A riveting, character-rich account of racial segregation in America that reveals just how central travel restrictions were to the creation of Jim Crow laws--and why "traveling Black" has been at the heart of the quest for racial justice ever since. Why have white supremacists and Black activists been so focused on Black mobility? From Plessy v. Ferguson to #DrivingWhileBlack, African Americans have fought for over a century to move freely around the United States. Curious as to why so many cases contesting the doctrine of "separate but equal" involved trains and buses, Mia Bay went back to the sources with some basic questions: How did travel segregation begin? Why were so many of those who challenged it in court women? How did it move from one form of transport to another, and what was it like to be caught up in this web of contradictory rules? From stagecoaches and trains to buses, cars, and planes, Traveling Black explores when, how, and why racial restrictions took shape and brilliantly portrays what it was like to live with them. "There is not in the world a more disgraceful denial of human brotherhood than the 'Jim Crow' car of the southern United States, " W. E. B. Du Bois famously declared. Bay unearths troves of supporting evidence, rescuing forgotten stories of undaunted passengers who made it back home despite being insulted, stranded, re-routed, or ignored. Black travelers never stopped challenging these humiliations and insisting on justice in the courts. Traveling Black upends our understanding of Black resistance, documenting a sustained fight that falls outside the traditional boundaries of the civil rights movement. A masterpiece of scholarly and human insight, this book helps explain why the long, unfinished journey to racial equality so often takes place on the road." -- Publisher's description
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Bay, Mia
Dewey number
305.896/073
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • portraits
Index
index present
LC call number
E185.61
LC item number
.B288 2021
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • African Americans
  • African Americans
  • Segregation in transportation
  • African Americans
  • African Americans
  • Segregation in transportation
  • United States
Target audience
adult
Label
Traveling Black : a story of race and resistance, Mia Bay
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Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-371) and index
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
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Contents
The road to Plessy: how travel segregation took shape -- 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
Control code
on1198018581
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
391 pages
Isbn
9780674979963
Lccn
2020039186
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
40030405222
Other physical details
illustrations, portraits
Label
Traveling Black : a story of race and resistance, Mia Bay
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-371) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
The road to Plessy: how travel segregation took shape -- 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
Control code
on1198018581
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
391 pages
Isbn
9780674979963
Lccn
2020039186
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
40030405222
Other physical details
illustrations, portraits

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