Belle Boggs (NHC Fellow, 2024–25)
Project Title
Big Yellow Bus: The Essential American History of a Disappearing Public Good
North Carolina State University
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Fellowship Work Summary, 2024–25
Belle Boggs drafted six chapters of her work in progress, Big Yellow Bus: The Essential American History of a Disappearing Public Good (Beacon Press, forthcoming). She revised, edited, and proofread her cowritten book, The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw: From Reconstruction through Black Lives Matter (The University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming, January 2026). She also wrote a climate annotation essay for Ecotone based on school bus research, “ᎾᏙᎴᏆᏍᎩ ᎤᏂᎩᎸᏙᏗ (‘It Carries Students’): Climate Resilience Rolls in on Yellow Buses in Cherokee, NC.” This annotation includes a short essay by Catcuce Tiger, a 12-year-old tribal member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.