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Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

8.020201h 55mMovieDocumentary

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.

DirectorsRic Burns·Gretchen Sorin
ProducersMargaret Munzer Loeb·Emily Pfeil

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Cast · Directed by Ric Burns

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Eric Avila
Self - Professor of History, UCLA
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Tamara Banks
Self - Journalist
HB
Herb Boyd
Self - “Black Detroit” Author
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Leah Chase
Self - Owner, Dooky Chase Restaurant
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Spencer Crew
Self - Smithsonian Interim Director
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Walter Edwards
Self - Chairman, Harlem Business Alliance
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Lolis Eric Elie
Self - Writer
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Carolyn Finney
Self - Author
KF
Kathleen Franz
Self - Author
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Allyson Hobbs
Self - Professor of History, Stanford University
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Kenneth Jackson
Self - Professor of History and Social Sciences, Columbia University
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Jennifer Reut
Self - Architectural Historian

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