How Jim Fitzpatrick came to write about Major Taylor, and that led to a movie.
Channel: John Allen
Date: 2018-09-14

Author Jim Fitzpatrick describes how he discovered the African-American world champion bicycle racer Major Taylor, whose career ran from 1896 through 1910, and how his research led to a book and a movie about Taylor's racing seasons in Australia in 1903 and 1904. Also see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rRzM3ufVWY, Fitzpatrick's talk about Taylor's Australia racing seasons.