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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.

DirectorsGretchen Sorin·Ric Burns
ProducersKathryn Clinard·Margaret Munzer Loeb

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PBS America Amazon ChannelPBS America Amazon Channel
Availability shown for United Kingdom · rights vary by country

Cast · Directed by Gretchen Sorin

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

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