Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Driving while black : race, space and mobility in America / producers, Emily Pfeil [and three others] ; co-producer, Greg Sorin ; directors, Ric Burns, Gretchen Sorin.

Publisher, Date:

Arlington, VA : PBS Distribution, [2021]

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

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.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: TV14.

Subjects:

African Americans -- Travel -- History -- 20th century.

African American automobile drivers -- History -- 20th century.

Automobile travel -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Segregation in transportation -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

African Americans -- Segregation -- History -- 20th century.

African Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century.

Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.

Genre: