Boston’s Cycling Craze: A Story of Race, Sport, and Society, 1880-1900
Featuring Kittie Knox and the all-Black Riverside Cycle Club in the 1890s; high wheelers and lady tricyclists in the 1880s; The Whelwoman, Major Taylor and the first integrated professional sports team in America; Henry Ar Foo, Chinese-American president of the Chelsea Cycle Club; the Boston Italian Wheelmen, and more.
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Chapter Titles
1. Kittie Knox, Boston, and the League of American Wheelmen
2. The Ladies’ North Shore Tricycle Tours, Mary Sargent Hopkins, and the Wheelwoman
3. The Wheelmen and the Wheel Around the Hub
4. Abbot Bassett, the League of American Wheelmen, and the Cycling Poets
5. Women’s Cycling Clubs and the Movement to Oust Women from a Boston Club
6. Ethnic Cycling Stories: Irish, Italians, Jews, and a Chinese American
7. African American Cyclists: Company L, the Riverside Cycle Club, and Robert Teamoh
8. Beyond Asbury Park: Kittie Knox Returns Home
9. The Fight over Cycling Space and Time: Parkways, Parks, Railways, Taxes, and Dogs
10. Racing Routes and Personalities:
The Linscott Race, the McDuffee’s, the Butlers, and Major Taylor
11. Wheeling Home: What Became of the Cyclists in the Twentieth Century?
Bicycling History 