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

Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

2020
115 min
8.0
80.0%
User Score
(3 votes)

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.

DIRECTED BY

Ric Burns

STARRING

Eric Avila, Tamara Banks, Herb Boyd, Leah Chase, Spencer Crew

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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

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