Traveling Black

Bay methodically works through how Black people were systematically discriminated against in all forms of travel from the end of the Civil War to the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Initially the strength of Reconstruction provided differential protection in some areas of the South, but the immense complexity and danger of traveling while Black is difficult to overstate, and Bay provides devastating detail here. This book also shows how it was the confrontation with these restrictions that eventually spurred the significant wins in court and legislation that culminated in the Civil Rights Act, while acknowledging in the final section that barriers remain to this day. Highly recommend