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Riding into History : The Surprising Story of Sarah Keys Evans and the Fight to Desegregate Bus Travel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nathan, Amy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Evans, Sarah Keys.
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps.
- United States.
- Civil rights workers, Black.
- Segregation in transportation--North Carolina--History--20th century.
- Segregation in transportation.
- African American women civil rights workers.
- Freedom Rides, 1961.
- Local Subjects:
- Evans, Sarah Keys.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (301 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- "In Riding into History, Amy Nathan draws on several years of personal conversations with Sarah Keys Evans alongside extensive historical and legal research to present a biography of Evans and her central role in the struggle for civil rights. A member of the Women's Army Corps, Evans was arrested in 1952 in Roanoke Rapids, NC for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus, three years before Rosa Parks was arrested in Alabama for the same offense. Today, a monument in Roanoke Rapids; Martin Luther King Jr. Park honors Evans and her pursuit of justice. Often overlooked in typical accounts of the Civil Rights era, Keys Evans' arrest and court case served as a crucial landmark in the fight to end segregation on public transportation. The book is comprised of several interwoven stories of Keys Evans' life, from her early childhood in Washington, NC through her participation in the movement to end Jim Crow policies, closing with a chapter containing brief accounts of some of the other men and women who took stands against transportation segregation from the mid-19th century onward"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Leading the Way
- A Glimmer of Hope
- Test Rides
- Into History
- "The Quietist of Us All"
- Education Backstory: North Carolina
- "Can Anything Be Done for My People?"
- A Plan of Attack
- Finding a Strategy
- Never Give Up
- Winning a Wider Victory
- Moving On
- Closing the Circle.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 1-4780-6192-8
- 9781478061922
- OCLC:
- 1568843983
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