Book
4 of 4 Copies Available
- CENTRAL: Children's Collection
- EASTWOOD: Teen Collection
- OSHTEMO: Children's Collection
- OSHTEMO: Teen Collection
Bessie Stringfield : tales of the talented tenth
Call Numbers
- J GRAPHIC NOVEL 921 STRINGFIELD (CEN, OSH)
- GRAPHIC NOVEL 921 S9186 TEEN (EAS, OSH)
Publication Information
Golden, CO : Fulcrum Publishing, [2016]
Physical Description
122 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 26 cm.
Audience
Ages 12 and up.
Summary
"Imagine a five-foot-two-inch-tall woman riding a Harley eight times across the continental United States. Now imagine she is black and is journeying across the country in the pre-Civil Rights era of the 1930s and '40s. That is the amazing true story of Bessie Stringfield, the woman known today as The Motorcycle Queen of Miami and the first black woman to be inducted into the American Motorcyclist Association Hall of Fame and the Harley Davidson Hall of Fame. Stringfield was a pioneer in motorcycling during her lifetime; she rode as a civilian courier for the US military and founded the Iron Horse Motorcycle Club in Miami, all while confronting and overcoming Jim Crow in every ride"--
Subjects
- Women motorcyclists > United States > Biography > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Motorcyclists > United States > Biography > Comic books, strips, etc.
- African American women > Biography > Comic books, strips, etc.
- African Americans > Biography > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Messengers > United States > Biography > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Graphic novels.
- United States > Description and travel > Comic books, strips, etc.
- United States. Army > Civilian employees > Biography > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Stringfield, Bessie, 1911-1993 > Comic books, strips, etc.