Amy Nathan
@amynathan.bsky.social
Author of nonfiction for young people and adults including several on civil rights, women's history, music and dance. www.AmyNathanBooks.com
"An inspiring, important, and often-neglected story of a civil rights icon," says the KIRKUS Review of the new book RIDING INTO HISTORY, about "U.S. Army PFC Sarah Louise Keys (1928-2023), who resisted bus segregation three years before Rosa Parks. www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
"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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Link to interview on NPR affiliate WUNC on new book about NY and NC civil rights hero Sarah Keys Evans, "Riding into History": www.wunc.org/show/due-sou...
How an Army Private from NC became an unwitting Civil Rights activist. Plus, Raleigh's resident Bald Eagle family
The story of Sarah Keys Evans, from the co-author of her book, and the Roanoke Rapids leaders who helped get her memorialized. Plus, the Bald Eagle family delighting Raleigh birders.
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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."
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).
New review for RIDING INTO HISTORY (about civil rights hero Sarah Keys Evans) Forbes Magazine, April 2026 "change often begins when ordinary people encounter injustice and refuse to accept it." www.forbes.com/sites/marybe...
Review of the Duke book "RIDING INTO HISTORY" about civil rights hero Sarah Keys Evans on TURNED PAGE REVIEW turnedpagereview.substack.com/p/riding-int...
Riding into History
How Sarah Keys Evans Desegregated Interstate Bus Travel
turnedpagereview.substack.com
"A moving tale of courage and persistence, told simply and succinctly . . . " from KIRKUS of "Sarah Keys Evans: The Power of Quiet Courage"---for young readers from the N.C. Office of Archives and History. Here's the link to the review on the KIRKUS site: www.kirkusreviews.com/.../amy.../s...
Seize The Moment Podcast / January 26, 2026 / an in-person interview primarily on the Duke book: Riding into History/ but also on the general story Amy Nathan - The Untold Story of Civil Rights Icon Sara Keyes Evans | STM Podcast #250 www.youtube.com/watch?v=usui...
Q&A with Amy Nathan on her two new books about the civil rights figure Sarah Keys Evans--one book for adults and one for kids! tinyurl.com/4kjvh534
NEW 2nd EDITION -- with a “PARDON” for Homer Plessy-- of the book about the historic 1896 “Plessy v. Ferguson” Supreme Court decision: "TOGETHER: An Inspiring Response to "Separate-but-Equal" www.pauldrybooks.com/products/tog...
"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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Amy Nathan@amynathan.bsky.social · 2y ago"THE BODY POLITIC" ON PBS' POV program Monday Nov. 25 -- and then on the PBS website afterwards -- excellent documentary on Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott's community-based violence prevention efforts that have succeeded in reducing violence in Baltimore. www.pbs.org/pov/films/bo...
"THE BODY POLITIC" ON PBS' POV program Monday Nov. 25 -- and then on the PBS website afterwards -- excellent documentary on Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott's community-based violence prevention efforts that have succeeded in reducing violence in Baltimore. www.pbs.org/pov/films/bo...
The Body Politic - POV
In Baltimore, a young mayor fights to enact a bold plan to end chronic violence.
pbs.org
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."
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"
