Mill Talk: Kittie Knox, Cyclist

And unveiling: “Kittie Knox in the Charles River Museum”

Presented by Lorenz Finison.

Kittie Knox was a young biracial cyclist in the 1890s who fought against race-based limitations in America’s post-Reconstruction reaction against Black advancement. During her cycling career (1893 – 1899), she became a well-known century (100-mile) rider, protested the League of American Wheelmen’s color bar in 1895, and refused to conform to conventions about fast riding and wearing a long skirt while cycling.
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