To Myself, With Love: The Bessie Stringfield Story

DIRECTOR(S):
Diane Fredel Weis
SYNOPSIS:

This is the first film about trailblazer Bessie Stringfield, a story about how the first Black woman of motorcycling never let obstacles stop her from achieving her dreams. From being abandoned as a child to riding across the segregated United States in 1930—six years before The Green Book was published.

Presented as Part Of Documentary Shorts, Program Two

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