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Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance

Mia. Bay

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Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance

Traveling Black won the Bancroft Prize, the David J. Langum Prize, the Lillian Smith Book Award, the Order of the Coif Book Award, and the OAH Liberty Legacy Foundation Award, and was a New York Times Critics' Top Book of the Year. From Plessy v. Ferguson to #DrivingWhileBlack, African Americans have fought to move freely around the United States. But why this focus on Black mobility? From stagecoaches and trains to buses, cars, and planes, Traveling Black explores when, how, and why racial restrictions took shape in America and brilliantly portrays what it was like to live with them. Mia Bay rescues forgotten stories of passengers who made it home despite being insulted, stranded, re-routed, or ignored. She shows that Black travelers never stopped challenging these humiliations, documenting a sustained fight for redress that falls outside the traditional boundaries of the civil rights movement. A riveting, character-rich account of the rise and fall of racial segregation, it reveals just how central travel restrictions were to the creation of Jim Crow laws—and why free movement has been at the heart of the quest for racial justice ever since.

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Publisher
Belknap Press
Year
2021
ISBN-13
9780674979963
Genre
History
Topics
Racial segregationCivil rights movementAfrican American history

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