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91/100Author:
Mia Bay
Publisher:
Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Date:
March 23, 2021
What was it like to travel while Black under Jim Crow? Mia Bay shows why access to unrestricted mobility has been central to the Black freedom struggle since Reconstruction and remains so today.
What The Reviewers Say
In Traveling Black, Mia Bay’s superb history of mobility and resistance, the question of literal movement becomes a way to understand the civil rights movement writ large.
Why bother recounting the 'dangerous and degrading' conditions African Americans faced in evolving forms of travel since the pre-Civil War era? For University of Pennsylvania historian Bay, author of this important and disturbing book of historical reclamation, the need is apparent.
... disturbing and absorbing.
... comprehensive.
