Ep. 745: Carrying On a Nearly 100-Year-Old Adventure Legacy - Daniela Ochoa Diaz
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In 1928 a group of five Black women set off on an unforgettable journey to bicycle 250 miles from Harlem to Washington D.C. in just 65 hours. For the next three days Marylou Jackson, Velma Jackson, Ethyl Miller, Leolya Nelson, and Constance White would pedal their bicycles 110 miles on day one, 40 miles on day two, and finish the experience with one more 100-mile push. When asked, by the one newspaper that wrote about the story, about what motivated this journey they responded by saying, “the love of the great-out-of-doors”.
Even though the journey was most likely unforgettable to them, history didn’t seem to take note of their ground-breaking experience for women and Black cyclists nearly a century ago. That is, until historian Marya McQuirter, found the picture and newspaper article in the mid-1990s and was immediately compelled to spread the word about this great accomplishment.
Fast forward to May of 2021 where the legacy continues. Daniela Ochoa Diaz, an Athletic Brewing Ambassador, joined four other women to recreate the journey nearly 100 years later. Today Daniela will tell us the story of that ride, how it went, and where the legacy goes from here.
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| 0:00.0 | So I'll be honest with you. |
| 0:01.7 | We have a few photographs of the period of the riders and know and understand some of the stops that they may have taken. |
| 0:09.4 | But the true narrative of their experience of the ride and the story of their ride is not very well known. |
| 0:35.8 | I love when an adventure or is carrying on something from history. |
| 0:40.2 | You know, we often run across stories of people who discover a magazine or discover this article somewhere |
| 0:46.5 | or a story that's someone from their family of something wild they did and people recreate that adventure in modern times. Well, for Danny here, |
| 0:57.0 | a friend of mine, Daniela Achoa Diaz, she goes by Danny for folks that know her, she was recently |
| 1:03.6 | a part of one of those adventures where a group of five black women rode bicycles from Harlem |
| 1:10.4 | in New York City all the way to Washington, D.C. |
| 1:13.6 | in 65 hours. That's 250 miles. And the story they came across was of five black women that |
| 1:20.6 | did this in 1928. Unfortunately at the time, there wasn't a lot of press about the story |
| 1:26.6 | for reasons you can probably guess. |
| 1:28.9 | But in the one article that was written about this, when the women were asked why they did this, they said simply for the love of the great out of doors, which is literally adventure, literally why we do this show. |
| 1:41.6 | And I just love the story. |
| 1:43.5 | I love the audacity of what they did. |
| 1:45.9 | They rode 100 miles, two of the three days, did sightseeing, took plenty of time to explore |
| 1:52.2 | the cities, explore natural areas. As you can imagine, the route wasn't nearly as built up as it |
| 1:57.8 | is today. And fast forward all the way to 2021, Danny and four of her friends, all black women as well, |
| 2:05.1 | decided to do this same route, the same ride in honor of what they're calling the 1928 |
| 2:10.5 | legacy tour. |
| 2:11.8 | And it's my hope that by the time a hundred years after 1928 comes around, so if you do the |
| 2:16.9 | math, pretty simple. |
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