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Intro and outro beats provided by freebeats.io and produced by White Hot. This has been a daily drop of Good Black News, based on the “ A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar for 2022,” published by Workman Publishing. Links to these and other sources are provided in today’s show notes and in the episode’s full transcript posted on. You can also watch 2016’s True First: African American Legends and their Untold Stories documentary on her on AllBlk via Amazon, or listen to the very informative 2021 episode about Mary on the podcast Black Cowboys.
To learn more about Stagecoach Mary, you can read Deliverance Mary Fields, First African American Woman Star Route Mail Carrier in the United States: A Montana Historyby Miantae Metcalf McConnell from 2016, the 2019 children’s picture book Fearless Mary: Mary Fields, American Stagecoach Driver written by Tami Charles and illustrated by Claire Almon, or the 2007 book African American Women of the Old Westby Tricia Wagner on which Mary graces the cover. With her guns and tough demeanor, “Stagecoach Mary” unfailingly protected her route from bandits and became beloved by locals in Cascade, Montana. In 1895, Fields became the first Black woman to get a postal service contract to deliver the U.S. After the Civil War, the newly freed Mary Fields worked as a groundskeeper at a convent.Īfter clashing with several nuns who objected to her smoking, drinking and gun-toting gruffness, Fields accepted a donated stagecoach from a sympathetic Mother Superior and used it to pursue a new line of work. Nicknames in the Old West had to be earned, not given. Hey, this Lori Lakin Hutcherson, founder and editor in chief of, here to share with you a daily drop of Good Black News for Saturday, March 12th, 2022, based on the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar” published by Workman Publishing. Or just check it out every day here on the main website (transcript below): You can follow or subscribe to the Good Black News Daily Drop Podcast through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, rss.comor create your own RSS Feed. By Lori Lakin Hutcherson ( GBN Daily Drop podcast is based on the Saturday, March 12 entry in the “A Year of Good Black News” Page-A-Day®️ Calendar for 2022 about Mary Fields aka “Stagecoach Mary” the formerly enslaved woman who delivered mail for the U.S.
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