Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

8.0 2020 115 min

Documentary

Discover how the advent of the automobile brought new mobility and freedom for African Americans but also exposed them to discrimination and deadly violence, and how that history resonates today.

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Directors: Ric Burns, Gretchen Sorin

Cast

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Eric Avila Self - Professor of History, UCLA

Tamara Banks Self - Journalist

Herb Boyd Self - “Black Detroit” Author

Leah Chase Self - Owner, Dooky Chase Restaurant

Spencer Crew Self - Smithsonian Interim Director

Walter Edwards Self - Chairman, Harlem Business Alliance

Lolis Eric Elie Self - Writer

Carolyn Finney Self - Author

Kathleen Franz Self - Author

Allyson Hobbs Self - Professor of History, Stanford University

Kenneth Jackson Self - Professor of History and Social Sciences, Columbia University

Jennifer Reut Self - Architectural Historian

Fath Ruffins Self - Smithsonian Curator

Thomas J. Sugrue Self - Professor of History, NYU

Candacy Taylor Self - Author

Christopher West Self - Professor of History, Pasadena City College

Craig Steven Wilder Professor of History, MIT

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