Book description
Americans have long regarded the freedom of travel a central tenet of citizenship. Yet, in the United States, freedom of movement has historically been a right reserved for whites. In this book, Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor shows that African Americans fought obstructions to their mobility over 100 years before Rosa Parksā¦
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Rosa Parks is an essential icon of the Civil Rights Movement, but the history of Black women and men turning segregation and discrimination during travel into a platform to negotiate the rights of citizenship has a longĀ arc. Pryor gives us the longer backstory to theĀ 20th-centuryĀ Civil Rights Movement andĀ 21st-centuryĀ movement for Black lives when she traces howĀ 19th-centuryĀ Black men and womenĀ travelingĀ in stage coaches, rail cars, and steam shipsĀ were often on the front lines of the struggle for Americansā equal protection under the law.
From Christina's list on African Americans who shaped democracy in America.
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