Monthly Archives: May 2017

Bessie Stringfield, “Yep. I never was like anybody else.”

Great write up over at Atlas Obscura about Bessie Stringfield. In the 1930s, Bessie Stringfield practically disappeared in a cloud of smoke, bolting across the walls of a wooden, bowl-shaped arena: the Wall of Death. She was on her way across the country, traveling completely alone—again—on a Harley. Bessie Stringfield, an African-American Bostonian originally from Jamaica, had already […]