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SUMMARY:Mill Talk: Kittie Knox\, Cyclist presented by Lorenz Finison
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nMill Talk: “Kittie Knox\, Cyclist”\nand unveiling:
 “Kittie Knox in the Charles River Museum”\n6:00 PM Unveiling\, 7:00 PM
 Mill Talk\npresented by Lorenz Finison\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER\n\n\n\n\n\nFREE
 TO THE PUBLIC Registration Required\n\n\nThe Charles River Museum\n154
 Moody St\, Waltham\, MA\nVisit charlesrivermuseum.org/directions for
 parking info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKittie Knox was a young
 biracial cyclist in the 1890s who fought against race-based limitations in
 America’s post-Reconstruction reaction against Black advancement. During
 her cycling career (1893 – 1899)\, she became a well-known century
 (100-mile) rider\, protested the League of American Wheelmen’s color bar
 in 1895\, and refused to conform to conventions about fast riding and
 wearing a long skirt while cycling. For decades after her untimely death\,
 Knox’s groundbreaking story was virtually unknown outside of the world of
 cycling. Scholar and writer Larry Finison has worked to bring her
 remarkable life back to a wider audience and will speak about Kittie Knox
 in the context of the late 19th century cycling craze.\nThe Charles River
 Museum has long had a display of turn of the century bicycles to represent
 the Waltham Manufacturing Company of Charles Metz. Metz innovated and built
 bicycles\, motorcycles\, and cars\, all under the Orient brand name.
 Alongside Major Taylor\, Kittie Knox will have a prominent representation
 in our gallery as a pioneering figure in the early days of cycling history
 and having appeared here in Waltham at the Waltham Cycling Track in its
 heyday.\nSpeaker Bio: Lorenz “Larry” Finison\nLarry Finison is a social
 psychologist by training and public health practitioner by profession and
 then turned to the social history of bicycling. He is the author of
 Boston's Cycling Craze\, 1880-1900\, Boston's 20th Century Bicycling
 Renaissance\, and Bicycling Inclusion and Equity (2023). His most recent
 work is Kittie Knox: Exclusion and Inclusion in Boston’s Black Athletes:
 Identity\, Performance\, and Activism. He is also a friend to the
 University of Massachusetts Boston’s Bicycling History Collections
 Archives and a member of the New England Cycling Coalition for Diversity.
 Larry has done significant research in bringing the story of Kittie
 Knox’s life to a modern audience.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMill Talks at the
 Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation are free and open to the
 public and are made possible by the generous support of the Lowell
 Institute.\n\n\n\n\n\n
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CATEGORIES:History,Lecture
LOCATION:The Charles River Museum\, 154 Moody Street\, Waltham\, MA\,
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