RIDING INTO HISTORY
RIDING INTO HISTORY
The Surprising Story of Sarah Kevs Evans and the Fight to Desegregate Bus Travel
By Amy Nathan, with Sarah Keys Evans / A book for a general audience from Duke University Press, March 24, 2026
Sarah Keys Evans's landmark 1955 Civil Rights victory, "Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company" not only desegregated interstate bus travel, it also provided the legal precedent needed during the 1961 Freedom Rides to pressure the Interstate Commerce Commission to properly enforce its Sarah Keys ruling. Often overlooked in many accounts of the Civil Rights era, her arrest and victory are crucial milestones in the fight against segregation. RIDING INTO HISTORY draws on years of personal conversations with Sarah Keys Evans as well as extensive research to present a biography of this hero and her role in the struggle for civil rights alongside the long history of many other Black Americans, especially women, who protested racial segregation in interstate travel.
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