Women's History Month: Bessie Stringfield

Nicknamed the "Motorcycle Queen of Miami," Bessie Stringfield served as a dispatch rider for the U.S. Army in the 1940s during an era when straddling a motorcycle was considered unladylike. She is also the first African American woman to ride a motorcycle across the lower forty-eight, no small feat especially during the era of Jim Crow. Each year hundreds of women motorcyclists make an annual road trip in her honor.

Read more about Stringfield at the Iron and Air magazine »