#tdih 1952 22-yr-old WAC Sarah Louise Keys Evans from NC bravely refused to give up her seat for a white man on charter bus from NJ to NC. She was arrested, filed suit (with lawyer Dovey J. Roundtree), & won in Keys v. Carolina Coach Co. #TeachTruth Read ⬇️. 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sa...

Aug. 1, 1952: Sarah Keys Refuses to Give Up Her Seat on a Bus

Sarah Keys refused to give up her seat on a state-to-state charter bus, prompting the landmark court case, Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company.

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Congratulations to Augustus Wood! His book Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression under Gentrification (@uncpress.bsky.social, Justice, Power, and Politics series) has been shortlisted for the Museum of African American History (MAAH) Stone Book Award!

Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression under Gentrification — MAAH Stone Book Award

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Greyhound moved to Cleveland @cityofcleveland.bsky.social in 1931. Many Black women sued for bus violence and were represented by the Cleveland lawyer Chester Gillespie. His house is still standing! I discuss this hidden history in Policing Passengers, out in November! @uncpress.bsky.social

#tdih 1854: African American schoolteacher Elizabeth Jennings was thrown off a New York streetcar while on way to church. Next day a rally was held to support her. She took 3rd Ave Railway Company to court. Frederick Douglass publicized case. She won. 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/el...

July 16, 1854: Elizabeth Jennings Graham

Schoolteacher Elizabeth Jennings Graham successfully challenged racist streetcar policies in New York City.

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56 years ago today, the Young Lords took over Lincoln Hospital, demanding better care for their Black and Latino neighbors. It's important to read this alongside patients rights movements and wages for housework because there were *many* such takeovers of clinics and hospitals in this period.

99 years ago in Richmond, Indiana, Laura Fischer (21 years old) became the first Black woman in the U.S. to sue for bus segregation. She won, Greyhound paid damages, and Judge Pickett punished the white bus driver. I discuss this lawsuit and *42 others* in Policing Passengers @uncpress.bsky.social

Policing Passengers: Black Women & the Fight Against Bus Violence will appear with @uncpress.bsky.social on November 10! Before the Montgomery Bus Boycott & the Freedom Rides, Black women founded bus protest & resisted violent bus driving policing with *43* lawsuits. uncpress.org/978146969831...

Policing Passengers

Before the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Freedom Rides, Black women passengers founded bus protest and made the right to a bus seat a symbol of the right to...

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Trump is flat wrong when he claims that birthright citizenship was intended only for the "babies of slaves." Martha Jones and I have the receipts. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

Opinion | Trump Says Birthright Citizenship Was for ‘the Babies of Slaves.’ He’s Wrong.

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Truly happy to reveal the cover of AN INCONVENIENT WOMAN: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America. Available for preorder now!🙏♥️ read.macmillan.com/lp/an-inconv...

An Inconvenient Woman 9781250337931 - Macmillan

A revelatory and immersive biography of Lillian Smith, a white Southern woman who was a key figure in the early civil rights movement, devoting her life to e...

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I have been waiting for this story (because it's the story of my region and the wealth inequality therein) and I'm so happy that Hammer and Hope did it. Not just as news, but as a broader story of why they sicced DOGE on the feds.

What Happened to the Black Women Trump Purged From the Federal Work Force?

Over a year later, they are struggling to find financial footing and make sense of the racist backlash that displaced them.

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Rest in power Breonna Taylor. Today, we mourn six years without her, and six years without justice or accountability.

Sometimes you get lucky enough to meet a student activist from Eastern Michigan University in the 1960s and then ask him to recreate his pose!

Always important to revisit the Montgomery bus boycott. Also: thousands of Black women passengers resisted bus segregation & filed 43 lawsuits in the first four decades *before* Montgomery. Stay tuned! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis

The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required tremendous sacrifice without certainty it would work

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It is now about 100 years since many Americans started riding buses. Absolutely loving the movement for free transportation: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...

Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.

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Transportation is fascinating! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Mamdani Rides Slow Bus to ‘Fast and Free’ Buses Event

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“A monumental achievement. The meticulousness of Ashley Farmer’s research is matched only by the grace of her prose. The result is a lucid, fascinating biography—a rendering worthy of the great Audley Moore herself.” – @jelani, Dean of Columbia Journalism School

This is terrifying. Black women passengers experienced hundreds of cases like this one on interstate buses, starting in the late 1920s.

Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D.@profblmkelley.bsky.social · last yr.

Wow. More than a century after the fight I chronicled in Right to Ride, when Black passengers challenged segregation on trains and boycotted segregated streetcars, Black passengers are now being told to move to the back of the bus? And threatened with arrest if they don't? #StudyingSegregation

No idea what to think about AI, but I just received an *incredibly* insightful answer on how people filed affidavits in the 1930s.

New UNC Press books have entered the villa 😎 ICYMI: our fall 2025 catalog of books publishing between August 2025 and January 2026 is now live on our site 🎉 uncpress.org/fall-2025-se...

On International Women’s Day, I recommit to fighting for all women and girls across the globe. All women, regardless of birth place or nationality, deserve a world where they can thrive.

Black history month was born in resistance. We don't need anyone's permission to do the research, to write to read, or to speak. Let's just keep going the work.

Thrilled that Mary Frances Berry is Eastern Michigan’s keynote speaker today! History teaches us to resist!

@beaconpress.bsky.social 📕 Alert: "Tell Her Story Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City" Summer 2025 #EleanorBumpurs #BXHistory #NYCHistory #1980s Preorder: www.beacon.org/Tell-Her-Sto...

In my first apartment building in D.C., I lived with a former butler in the White House. He told me Jimmy Carter was his favorite.

December 2024 Reads for the Rest of Us from @msmagazine.bsky.social, featuring RADICAL SOLIDARITY: Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico’s Independence by Lisa Materson @ucdavis.bsky.social ↘️ msmagazine.com/2024/12/03/b...

December 2024 Reads for the Rest of Us - Ms. Magazine

The best feminist books written by women, Black, brown, AAPI, LGBTQ, Native, disabled, trans, nonbinary writers in December 2024.

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