Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America (2020)
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.
- Released
- 2020-10-13
- Genres
- Documentary
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Ric Burns, Gretchen Sorin
- TMDB rating
- 8.0/10 from 4 votes
Cast
- Eric Avila as Self - Professor of History, UCLA
- Tamara Banks as Self - Journalist
- Herb Boyd as Self - “Black Detroit” Author
- Leah Chase as Self - Owner, Dooky Chase Restaurant
- Spencer Crew as Self - Smithsonian Interim Director
- Walter Edwards as Self - Chairman, Harlem Business Alliance
- Lolis Eric Elie as Self - Writer
- Carolyn Finney as Self - Author
- Kathleen Franz as Self - Author
- Allyson Hobbs as Self - Professor of History, Stanford University
- Kenneth Jackson as Self - Professor of History and Social Sciences, Columbia University
- Jennifer Reut as Self - Architectural Historian
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