This week highlighted the well-known blacks who are involved/are still involved in the motorcycle riding community. Today I am going to spotlight John Wesley McCollum, aka, P. Wee. An influential leader of the Los Angeles biker community for more than 50 years, John Wesley McCollum, known to everyone as P. Wee, was present at the beginning of the urban … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: History of Black Motorcyclists
History of Black Motorcyclists
Friday Open Thread: History of Black Motorcyclists
The East Bay Dragons Motorcycle Club have gunned their Harley's through the mean streets of Oakland, California since the 1950s. While Rosa Parks took her historic bus ride, and as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and Huey P. Newton and the Black Panthers stood bravely for equal rights, the East Bay Dragons MC risked life and limb during days when a black man … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: History of Black Motorcyclists
Thursday Open Thread: History of Black Motorcyclists
Billed as the "Oldest Black and White Motorcycle Club in Nebraska," Los Diablos M/C was founded in Omaha, Nebraska, 1960. Omaha, it's clear, was a world apart from Los Angeles at the time. As young black men were banding together in the inner-city neighborhoods of Los Angeles and Oakland, to share both an enthusiasm for custom motorcycles and the emerging black-urban … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: History of Black Motorcyclists