If you were to read the list of places Bessie Stringfield rode to, and number of miles she racked up, you would be impressed if it had been done in the 1980s. Bessie, though, pulled it off long before ...

If daring and determined were a person, they might resemble the spirit of Black travel history maker Bessie Stringfield. In 1930, the self-taught motorcyclist became the first African American woman ...

It’s hard to say if Bessie Stringfield went wherever the wind told her or if she made the wind bend to her will. Known as the “Motorcycle Queen of Miami,” Stringfield was the first Black woman to ride ...

View post: Honda Just Dropped 2025 Pilot’s November Lease Deals Families Can’t Ignore During the Jim Crow era, a time when Black Americans were segregated based on the color of their skin, a young ...

She made eight solo journeys around the United States back when relatively few women were riding motorcycles. Thirty years after her death, more and more of her story is coming to light. Bessie ...

Bessie Stringfield was, by all accounts, a woman of many lives. Her origin story remains murky, but what is well known is her prowess on her famed Harley motorcycles, which she rode throughout Florida ...

If you watched Lovecraft Country this summer, you might have wondered why the woman riding her motorcycle on the side of Tik’s car was significant. That woman was Bessie Stringfield: the first Black ...

A story about a girl who proves she can ride faster than a group of dismissive boys introduces readers to Bessie Stringfield, an African-American motorcyclist active in the 1930s and ’40s. The ...

WEBVTT KAREN: WELCOME BACK, FOLLOWING THE SUCCESS OF HIS GRAPHIC NOVEL, A COLLECTION OF UNTOLD STORIES AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY, JOE CONTINUES TO LIFT UP ON CELEBRATED AFRICAN-AMERICANS. EACH BOOK ...