The exhibit highlights both the benefits and challenges they experienced while traveling as Black women during the Jim Crow era. BlackVoicesWTTW
With long-distance travel reflecting both luxury and American progression, curator Miriam Thaggert says she hopes attendees gain better insight into the realities of not only traveling as a woman during that time, but as a Black woman.
Thaggert’s work is also featured in a book, “Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad.“Thanks to our sponsors:
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