mary-elizabeth murphy
@jimcrowcapital.bsky.social
history professor at eastern michigan, author of Jim Crow Capital (UNC, 2018) & Policing Passengers (UNC, 2026, forthcoming!)
It is now about 100 years since many Americans started riding buses. Absolutely loving the movement for free transportation: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
It is now about 100 years since many Americans started riding buses. Absolutely loving the movement for free transportation: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Transportation is fascinating!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...
Mamdani Rides Slow Bus to ‘Fast and Free’ Buses Event
www.nytimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Transportation is fascinating!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...
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“A monumental achievement. The meticulousness of Ashley Farmer’s research is matched only by the grace of her prose. The result is a lucid, fascinating biography—a rendering worthy of the great Audley Moore herself.”
– @jelani, Dean of Columbia Journalism School
– @jelani, Dean of Columbia Journalism School
August 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
“A monumental achievement. The meticulousness of Ashley Farmer’s research is matched only by the grace of her prose. The result is a lucid, fascinating biography—a rendering worthy of the great Audley Moore herself.”
– @jelani, Dean of Columbia Journalism School
– @jelani, Dean of Columbia Journalism School
This is terrifying. Black women passengers experienced hundreds of cases like this one on interstate buses, starting in the late 1920s.
Wow. More than a century after the fight I chronicled in Right to Ride, when Black passengers challenged segregation on trains and boycotted segregated streetcars, Black passengers are now being told to move to the back of the bus? And threatened with arrest if they don't? #StudyingSegregation
Worried yet?
This is what time it is: Jim Crow-o-clock. www.startribune.com/minnesota-st...
To see how this lines up with the century+ long struggle over desegregating transportation, consider reading @profblmkelley.bsky.social's Right to Ride or Prof. Mia Bay's Traveling Black. 🗃️
This is what time it is: Jim Crow-o-clock. www.startribune.com/minnesota-st...
To see how this lines up with the century+ long struggle over desegregating transportation, consider reading @profblmkelley.bsky.social's Right to Ride or Prof. Mia Bay's Traveling Black. 🗃️
July 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is terrifying. Black women passengers experienced hundreds of cases like this one on interstate buses, starting in the late 1920s.
No idea what to think about AI, but I just received an *incredibly* insightful answer on how people filed affidavits in the 1930s.
July 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
No idea what to think about AI, but I just received an *incredibly* insightful answer on how people filed affidavits in the 1930s.
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New UNC Press books have entered the villa 😎
ICYMI: our fall 2025 catalog of books publishing between August 2025 and January 2026 is now live on our site 🎉
uncpress.org/fall-2025-se...
ICYMI: our fall 2025 catalog of books publishing between August 2025 and January 2026 is now live on our site 🎉
uncpress.org/fall-2025-se...
Fall/Winter 2025 Seasonal Catalog Listing
Welcome to the UNC Press Fall/Winter 2025 Seasonal Catalog. Here you’ll find a listing of our new books scheduled to be published between August 2025 and
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April 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
New UNC Press books have entered the villa 😎
ICYMI: our fall 2025 catalog of books publishing between August 2025 and January 2026 is now live on our site 🎉
uncpress.org/fall-2025-se...
ICYMI: our fall 2025 catalog of books publishing between August 2025 and January 2026 is now live on our site 🎉
uncpress.org/fall-2025-se...
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On International Women’s Day, I recommit to fighting for all women and girls across the globe.
All women, regardless of birth place or nationality, deserve a world where they can thrive.
All women, regardless of birth place or nationality, deserve a world where they can thrive.
March 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
On International Women’s Day, I recommit to fighting for all women and girls across the globe.
All women, regardless of birth place or nationality, deserve a world where they can thrive.
All women, regardless of birth place or nationality, deserve a world where they can thrive.
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Black history month was born in resistance. We don't need anyone's permission to do the research, to write to read, or to speak. Let's just keep going the work.
February 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Black history month was born in resistance. We don't need anyone's permission to do the research, to write to read, or to speak. Let's just keep going the work.
Thrilled that Mary Frances Berry is Eastern Michigan’s keynote speaker today! History teaches us to resist!
January 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Thrilled that Mary Frances Berry is Eastern Michigan’s keynote speaker today! History teaches us to resist!
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@beaconpress.bsky.social 📕 Alert: "Tell Her Story
Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City" Summer 2025 #EleanorBumpurs #BXHistory #NYCHistory #1980s
Preorder: www.beacon.org/Tell-Her-Sto...
January 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
@beaconpress.bsky.social 📕 Alert: "Tell Her Story
Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City" Summer 2025 #EleanorBumpurs #BXHistory #NYCHistory #1980s
Preorder: www.beacon.org/Tell-Her-Sto...
In my first apartment building in D.C., I lived with a former butler in the White House. He told me Jimmy Carter was his favorite.
December 29, 2024 at 11:16 PM
In my first apartment building in D.C., I lived with a former butler in the White House. He told me Jimmy Carter was his favorite.
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December 2024 Reads for the Rest of Us from @msmagazine.bsky.social, featuring RADICAL SOLIDARITY: Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico’s Independence by Lisa Materson @ucdavis.bsky.social ↘️
msmagazine.com/2024/12/03/b...
msmagazine.com/2024/12/03/b...
December 2024 Reads for the Rest of Us - Ms. Magazine
The best feminist books written by women, Black, brown, AAPI, LGBTQ, Native, disabled, trans, nonbinary writers in December 2024.
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December 4, 2024 at 8:32 PM
December 2024 Reads for the Rest of Us from @msmagazine.bsky.social, featuring RADICAL SOLIDARITY: Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico’s Independence by Lisa Materson @ucdavis.bsky.social ↘️
msmagazine.com/2024/12/03/b...
msmagazine.com/2024/12/03/b...