Bicycle Culture Rising #4: How Kittie Knox Made Bicycling for Everyone

by Joe Biel

In the 1890s, bicycling was a cultural activity for the wealthy elite, with a bicycle costing about twenty weeks of a laborer's pay. And even if you were to somehow acquire one, you were most likely going to land face-first on the gravel roadway. There were strict cultural norms and bicyclists were painted as scofflaws in the media. Kittie Knox, a teenage Black girl, began making headlines in her hometown of Boston, showing up in homemade tailored...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1621066991
• ISBN13: 9781621066996
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Microcosm Publishing
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.1" x 6.9"