Boston's Black Bicyclists

Boston’s Black Bicyclists of the 1890s with Lorenz J. Finison.

Beacon Hill was a hub of black bicyclists in the 1890s, many with connections to Medford. Join Lecturer Lorenz Finison as he talks about these early cyclists. His talk will include Robert Teamoh and Kitty Knox who challenged the League of American Wheelmen’s “color bar”, Mary Sargent Hopkins, tricyclist and later publisher of The Wheelwoman, the Riverside Cycling Club, an all-black club formed in 1893. 

Lorenz Finison currently teaches BU School of Public Health. A founding board member of Cycling Through History: The Massachusetts African American Heritage Bike Route, Larry has a strong interest in the social history of cycling and social protest movements.
Presented by the Friends of the Medford Public Library.