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

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

Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

2020 1h 55m 8Movie

Documentary

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.

Where to Watch

Ric Burns

Director

Gretchen Sorin

Director

Top 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

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