Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

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.

Documentary

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)