Kittie Knox- Breaking Barriers in Bicycling

Описание: This video looks at the life of Kittie Knox, a talented bicyclist in the 1890s, who pushed through racial barriers and gender role expectations in cycling.

⏰TIME STAMPS⏰

1:19- Kittie Knox childhood in Cambridge
3:16- Kittie's childhood in the West End/Beacon Hill area of Boston
5:30- A lil' bike history of Boston & the groups Kittie biked with
8:33- John Allen shares Waltham Cycle Park history
9:55- Larry Finison explains how Kittie won a bicycle costume contest in Waltham
11:42 Kittie & the color bar controversy at the Asbury Park meet
16:21- Kittie century cycling and race issues in Boston
18:47- I like to support BIPOC owned restaurants in the local area where I film whenever I can find one! I visited an Karibu Restaurant in Waltham-10 Crescent Street

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📗 SOURCES📗

Adams, Dan. “Ceremony honors cyclist who broke barriers” Boston Globe https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/201...

Allen, John. "The World’s First Athletic Superstar". CyclingSavvy https://cyclingsavvy.org/2021/02/majo...

Bicycling History Collections at UMass Boston https://umb.libguides.com/bicycling

Biel, Joe. "How Kittie Knox Changed Bicycling Forever". Medium   / how-kittie-knox-changed-bicycling-forever  

“Boston's Bike History”. City of Boston https://www.cityofboston.gov/bikes/Bi...

Finison, Lorenz. Boston's Cycling Craze, 1880-1900: A Story of Race, Sport, and Society. Chapter 1 is specifically about Kittie Knox https://www.umasspress.com/9781625340...

Finison, Lorenz. “Learning from the Legacy of Kittie Knox”. American Bicyclist - Fall 2020 (Page 14-15) https://issuu.com/bikeleague/docs/lab...

Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery. “Kittie Knox (1874 – 1900)”. https://mountauburn.org/kittie-knox-1...

Green, Amy. “The Bicycle Craze”. Charles River Museum https://www.charlesrivermuseum.org/th...

Tomasi, Adam. “Kittie Knox”. West End Museum https://thewestendmuseum.org/article/...

💡Additional Reading Suggestions💡

Boston's Twentieth-Century Bicycling Renaissance by Lorenz Finison https://www.umasspress.com/9781625344...

📸PHOTO CREDIT📸

West Boston Bridge courtesy of Historic New England

High Wheel Cyclists photo courtesy of Quincy Historical Society. The photo is "At Readville, the first organized bicycle run held in the United States, organized by the Massachusetts and Boston Bicycle clubs, September 11-12, 1879.”

There are many more images in the public domain used in the video. Please contact me if you would like more information on the images!