02069cam a2200349 i 4500 513212897 TxAuBib 20210917120000.0 201007s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020039186 9780674979963 0674979966 40030405222 (OCoLC)1198018581 TxAuBib rda Bay, Mia,. Traveling Black : a story of race and resistance / Mia Bay. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021. ℗2021. 391 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Racial Equity and Inclusion Collection Purchased with funds provided by: Libraries Transforming Communities. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. "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. 20210917. African Americans Segregation History. African Americans Travel History. Segregation in transportation United States History.