Bessie Stringfield [electronic resource] / words and pictures [by] Joel Christian Gill.

"Imagine a five-foot-two-inch-tall woman riding a Harley eight times across the continental United States. Now imagine she is black and is journeying across the country in the pre-Civil Rights era of the 1930s and '40s. That is the amazing true story of Bessie Stringfield, the woman known today as T...

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Main Author: Gill, Joel Christian (Author)
Language:English
Published: Golden, CO : Fulcrum Publishing, [2016]
Series:Tales of the talented tenth ; volume 2
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Variant Title:
Bessie Stringfield: Tales of the Talented Tenth, No. 2
Format: Electronic eBook

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