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Paraphrased from the 16-page paper authored by Lorenz J. Finison. The Riverside Cycle Club was an all-black club formed in Boston, MA in 1893. One of its associates was Kittie Knox, described by the New York Times as a `pretty young colored girl who rides in the Riverside Cycle Club, Boston`s only colored cycle club`. She was a member of the League of American Wheelmen (the League), known for her challenge to the League`s `color bar` at Asbury Park in 1895. Another RCC associate was Robert Teamoh, an African-American state legislator, who obtained a legislative resolution denouncing the new color bar. Their actions are examples of the continuing activism of the descendants of black and white abolitionists in late 19th century Boston, in the context of the worsening national racial climate of the time, including in the cycling world. |