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and educators who were concerned about the impact of cities

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Van Deburg has collected the most influential speeches

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Riding Jane Crow Harrod J. Suarez and the descendants of localMiriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth and early twentieth century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black Americans to "ride Jim Crow" on the rails, the train compartment became a contested space of leisure and work. Riding Jane Crow examines four instances of Black female railroad travel: the travel narratives of Black female intellectuals such as