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Author of nonfiction for young people and adults including several on civil rights, women's history, music and dance. www.AmyNathanBooks.com

"A Conversation with Amy Nathan: Exploring the Legacy of Sarah Keys Evans and America's Long Road to Justice." The podcast Conversations with Kenyatta, discusses the new book RIDING INTO HISTORY about civil rights hero Sarah Keys Evans (Duke University Press) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

A Conversation with Amy Nathan: Exploring the Legacy of Sarah Keys Evans and America's Long Road to Justice

Podcast Episode · Conversations with Kenyatta · June 25 · 43m

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The Carousel on the National Mall is back !! Reinstalled with repairs so the horses are as gorgeous as ever, with the historical marker installed, too, telling of the ride's link to civil rights history. Here's a Smithsonian Magazine article about this: www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

A Young Black Girl Was the First to Desegregate a Maryland Carousel in the 1960s. Now, the Historic Merry-Go-Round Will Entertain Visitors on the National Mall

The ride from Gwynn Oak Amusement Park has been out of commission for renovations since 2023. It opens to the public on April 24

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"RIDING INTO HISTORY" review in Harvard Magazine: "Nathan recounts the case as both biography and legal history ...illuminating an under-studied chapter of the civil rights movement. Keys's landmark 1955 victory closed a loophole ...used to maintain segregation in interstate travel."

Picture of the cover of RIDING INTO HISTORY by Amy Nathan and Sarah Keys Evans, Duke University Press, 2026

What a surprise! On April 19, 2026, at an event celebrating the new Duke book on the late Sarah Keys Evans -- RIDING INTO HISTORY -- the Major Reading Blount Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution presented an award & medal honoring this civil rights hero (to be sent to her sister).

photo of D.A.R. award honoring Sarah Keys Evans with a medal hanging from a red white and blue ribbonPhoto of the cover of the book RIDING INTO HISTORY by Amy Nathan and Sarah Keys Evans, published by Duke University Press

"Yankee Doodle Gals: Women Pilots of WWII"—a photo-filled book from National Geographic about the women pilots of World War II, the WASP & Their CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL! --"Yankee Doodle Gals really sparkles when Nathan tells the stories of individual WASPs.." —Washington Post

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At an "Author's Night" here's a carousel horse cutout on paper, decorated by a 3rd grader responding to the children's book "A Ride to Remember." She wrote her wish for making the world a better place, writing: "I wish the ocean would be clean with no garbage."

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At an "Author's Night" at J Anderson's Books, here's a carousel horse decorated by a 3rd grader responding to the picture book "A Ride to Remember" -- writing on the horse her wish for making the world a better place.....She wrote: "I wish the Ocean would be clean without garbage"

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