Black History:  Special Delivery!!

Public Domain Image

Public Domain Image

Check out this great story about a group of black women who cycled to the nation’s capital in 1928!

Easter weekend, 1928, 5 African American women set out on a 250 mile journey by bicycle. Marylou Jackson, Velma Jackson, Ethyl Miller Leolya Nelson and Constance White rode from New York to Washington DC.

Check out the link below to view the article:

https://www.tumblr.com/nmaahc/115126897360/a-historians-perspective-black-women-bicycling