In this edition of Entrepreneurial Appetite's Black Book Discussions, we partner with The Buddy Pass Podcast to bring you a conversation with Mia Bay, Ph.D., author of Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance. Our special guest host is Leroy Adams, founder of the Buddy Pass Travel Brands.
About the Book: Why have white supremacists and Black activists been so focused on Black mobility? From Plessy v. Ferguson to #DrivingWhileBlack, African Americans have fought for over a century to move freely around the United States. Curious as to why so many cases contesting the doctrine of "separate but equal" involved trains and buses, Mia Bay went back to the sources with some basic questions: How did travel segregation begin? Why were so many of those who challenged it in court women? How did it move from one form of transport to another, and what was it like to be caught up in this web of contradictory rules?