Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

8 2020 • 1h 55

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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Cast

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