Traveling Jane Crow: African American Women and Railroad History

The Department of African American Studies presents the 42nd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Public Affairs Lecture.

Miriam Thaggert, Professor and Associate Chair of English at SUNY Buffalo, uncovers the overlooked work of African American women on American railroads.

Professor Thaggert is a scholar of African American literature, gender and sexuality studies, travel and mobility studies and visual culture. She is the author of Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad and Images of Black Modernism: Verbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance. In 2022, she curated the path-breaking Newberry Library exhibition, Handmaidens for Travelers: The Pullman Company Maids.

This event is free and open to the public.