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Driving while black, race, space and mobility in America, a film by Gretchen Sorin and Ric Burns ; produced by Emily Pfeil, Emir Lewis, Steven Bennett, Kathryn Clinard ; senior producer, Bonnie Lafave ; co-producer, Greg Sorin ; written & directed by Ric Burns and Gretchen Sorin ; a production of Steeplechase Films

eng

videorecording

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)

Driving while black

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a film by Gretchen Sorin and Ric Burns ; produced by Emily Pfeil, Emir Lewis, Steven Bennett, Kathryn Clinard ; senior producer, Bonnie Lafave ; co-producer, Greg Sorin ; written & directed by Ric Burns and Gretchen Sorin ; a production of Steeplechase Films

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race, space and mobility in America

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

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

live action