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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Genres
Documentary film
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Nonfiction television programs
Historical television programs
Documentary television programs
Documentary films
History
Nonfiction films
Feature films
Published
[Arlington, Virginia] : PBS [2020]
Language
English
Corporate Author
Steeplechase Films Inc
Corporate Author
Steeplechase Films Inc (production company)
Other Authors
Gretchen Sullivan Sorin (film director), Ric Burns (film producer), Emily Pfeil (narrator), Emir Lewis, Steven (Producer) Bennett, Kathryn Clinard, Bonnie Lafave, Greg Sorin, Niyi Adelekan
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.