Driving while black Race, space and mobility in America
DVD - 2020
Chronicling the riveting history and personal experiences, at once liberating and challenging, harrowing and inspiring, deeply revealing and profoundly transforming, of African Americans on the road from the advent of the automobile through the seismic changes of the 1960s and beyond, it explores the deep background of a recent phrase rooted in realities that have been an indelible part of the African American experience for hundreds of years.
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[Arlington, Virginia] :
PBS
[2020]
- Language
- English
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- Item Description
- Documentary.
Originally released as a documentary in 2020.
Program content: ©2020. - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen presentation (16x9); 5.1 surround.
- Audience
- TV Parental Guidelines rating: TV-14 (parents strongly cautioned; this program contains some material that many parents would find unsuitable for children under 14 years of age).
- Production Credits
- Cinematography, Buddy Squires, Samuel Russell ; editor, Emir Lewis ; original music, Brian Keane.
- ISBN
- 9781531712518
- Act One. Introduction ; The Root of it ; Civil War & Reconstruction ; Jim Crow ; The Great Migration
- Act Two. Birth of the automobile ; The Myth of mobility ; Dangerous roadways
- Act Three. The Green Book ; Black entrepreneurship ; The Highway ; Civil Rights Era
- Act Four. DWB ; The Cruel reality ; Conclusion.