On Monday, June 2, 2025, historian Mia Bay, in conversation with Teaching for Black Lives co-editor Jesse Hagopian, will discuss Bay’s book, Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance, which explores racial restrictions on transportation and resistance to the injustice.
This extraordinary book is a powerful addition to the history of travel segregation. Traveling Black reveals how travel discrimination transformed over time from segregated trains to buses and Uber rides. Mia Bay shows that Black mobility has always been a struggle. — Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist
Mia Bay is the Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University Pennsylvania. Professor Bay is a scholar of American and African American intellectual, cultural and social history whose recent interests include Black women’s thought, African American approaches to citizenship, and the history of race and transportation.
Bay is also a frequent consultant on museum and documentary film projects. Her recent public history work includes working with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) on one of its inaugural exhibits — “Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation 1876-1968” — and serving a scholarly advisor to the Library of Congress and NMAAHC’s Civil Rights History Project.
These online classes with people’s historians are held at least once a month (generally on Mondays) at 4:00 pm PT / 7:00 pm ET for 90 minutes. In each session, the historian is interviewed by a teacher and breakout rooms allow participants to meet each other in small groups, discuss the content, and share teaching ideas. We designed the sessions for teachers and other school staff. Parents, students, and others are also welcome to participate.
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