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  • Kittie Knox: Nineteenth-Century Cyclist and Barrier Breaker

    Kittie Knox: Nineteenth-Century Cyclist and Barrier Breaker

    Never was Boston’s “The Hub” moniker more apt than during the last two decades of the nineteenth century, when the city went wild for cycling. Initially a leisure activity enjoyed by upper-class white Protestant men, cycling quickly took off among people of all classes, backgrounds, and races. One of these cyclists was Katherine Towles “Kittie”…

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