Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

• 8.0 Documentary
• 2020-10-13
• 115 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

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)

Director:

Ric Burns Gretchen Sorin

Writer:

No writer found.