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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Please join LivableStreets on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 100 Sidney Street for a StreetTalk regarding Boston’s Bicyclists Movement in the 1890’s. Learn about The Riverside Cycling Club, Kittie Knox, and Robert Teamoh and how their struggles can relate to the goals of providing adequate public transportation today. We hope to see you on November 30 and please spread the word! RSVP and invite friends on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=165786700122121" target="_blank">facebook here</a>.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Kara</font></p>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt; MARGIN-TOP: 0in"><span style="COLOR: rgb(97,80,63)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: large">Boston’s Bicyclists Movement of the 1890s</span></b></font></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(97,80,63)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: large"></span></b></font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt; MARGIN-TOP: 0in"><span style="COLOR: rgb(97,80,63)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">By Lorenz J. Finison<br><b>Tuesday, Nov 30, 7-9 pm<br></b>@ LivableStreets office, 100 Sidney Street, Cambridge, MA</font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt; MARGIN-TOP: 0in"><em><span style="COLOR: rgb(97,80,63)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Open to the public. Suggested $5-$10 donation.</font></span></em><span style="COLOR: rgb(97,80,63)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt; MARGIN-TOP: 0in"><img alt="http://www.livablestreets.info/files/StreetTalk_BikeParade_30Nov2010.jpg" align="right" width="350" height="191"><span style="COLOR: rgb(97,80,63)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Boston was a hub of black bicyclists in the 1890s, including: The Riverside Cycling Club, an all-black club with membership largely from Boston and Cambridge; Kittie Knox, a seamstress winning prizes for her cycling costumes and challenging the League of American Wheelmen’s “color bar”; Robert Teamoh, the Boston Globe newspaper writer/photographer; and state legislator who obtained a legislative resolution denouncing the “color bar“ in 1895. Learn about the impact of the “color bar” fight on the Good Roads campaign, the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia’s bicycle corps, and the Cambridge races of Major Taylor, an international champion and member of the first integrated professional sports team in the U.S. </font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt; MARGIN-TOP: 0in"><span style="COLOR: rgb(97,80,63)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>Followed by a discussion on what we can learn from history.This talk will be a great lead up to the much anticipated 3rd Annual Boston Bike Report with Boston Bikes Director Nicole Freedman in January and hosted by LivableStreets.</font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt; MARGIN-TOP: 0in"><span style="COLOR: rgb(97,80,63)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Lorenz Finison</font></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(97,80,63)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> currently teaches program and policy evaluation in the Doctor of Public Health program at Boston University. He is Principal of SigmaWorks, a consulting firm specializing in planning and evaluation. A founding board member of Cycling Through History: The Massachusetts African American Heritage Bike Route, Larry has a strong interest in the social history of cycling, cycling organizations and in social protest movements.</font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt; MARGIN-TOP: 0in"><span style="COLOR: rgb(97,80,63)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">For more information, e-mail </font></span><a href="mailto:events@livablestreets.info" target="_blank"><span style="COLOR: rgb(160,154,136)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">events@livablestreets.info</font></span></a><span style="COLOR: rgb(97,80,63)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> or call 617-621-1746</font></span></p>
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