Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America
Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America (2020)

2020-10-13

(US) •

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Overview

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.

Movie Cast

Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

Eric Avila

Self - Professor of History, UCLA

Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

Tamara Banks

Self - Journalist

Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

Herb Boyd

Self - “Black Detroit” Author

Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

Leah Chase

Self - Owner, Dooky Chase Restaurant

Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

Spencer Crew

Self - Smithsonian Interim Director

Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

Walter Edwards

Self - Chairman, Harlem Business Alliance

Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

Lolis Eric Elie

Self - Writer

Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

Carolyn Finney

Self - Author

Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

Kathleen Franz

Self - Author

Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

Allyson Hobbs

Self - Professor of History, Stanford University

Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

Kenneth Jackson

Self - Professor of History and Social Sciences, Columbia University

Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

Jennifer Reut

Self - Architectural Historian

Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

Fath Ruffins

Self - Smithsonian Curator

Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

Thomas J. Sugrue

Self - Professor of History, NYU

Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

Candacy Taylor

Self - Author

Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

Christopher West

Self - Professor of History, Pasadena City College

Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

Craig Steven Wilder

Professor of History, MIT