Review of The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s, by Evan Friss (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015)
… falling off my bicycle when I was trying to do tricks and breaking my hand. But our experiences are far from those … Marshall "Major" Taylor was a professional African American cyclist near the end of the "cycling city." … white, young men. There were other cyclists too, such as African Americans, Chinese, Polish, elite classes, and …