Policing Passengers: Black Women and the Fight Against Bus Violence

Before the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Freedom Rides, Black women passengers founded bus protest and made the right to a bus seat a symbol of the right to American democracy. Traveling back to the beginning of the bus industry in the 1920s, Policing Passengers tells the hidden history of this first generation of riders in the Jim Crow North and the Jim Crow South. In response to the perceived threat of Black women’s mobility, white bus executives recruited drivers from law enforcement an...