"Driving While Black" Documentary
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Documentary from Gretchen Sorin & Ric Burns chronicling the history of African Americans on the road from the early 1900’s through the 1960’s and beyond.
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#SeePlymouthMember Heritage Museums presents Gretchen Sullivan Sorin, author of Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights facebook.com/SeePlymouthMA/… #MyLocalMA #Sandwich #SandwichMA #CapeCod #SeePlymouth #VisitMA #Massachusetts #NewEngland #travel
I adapted Overground Railroad for young adults (ages 12 and up) and I've dedicated it to my mother, Carol Burford. This is a photo of her reading to me when I was a child. She is the reason I am an author. #greenbook ABRAMS Books SITravelingExhibits Library of Congress Ida Bae Wells
Looking for #BlackHistoryMonth resources? Please check out "Black Quotidian" a free digital project from Stanford Press that includes 365+ historical articles from Black newspapers, so you can celebrate Black history year round. blackquotidian.org
Watching “Driving While Black” "Driving While Black" Documentary on PBS which examines laws & practices that restricted black mobility not only during slavery, but through Reconstruction, Jim Crow & into the 1960s—carrying the threat of arrest, harassment, violence even death. #BlackHistoryMonth
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In 2020, filmmaker Gretchen Sorin sat down with WBUR’s Robin Young to discuss the #NEHgrant-funded "Driving While Black" Documentary she co-created with Steeplechase Films, which looks at the history of Black mobility in the U.S. Revisit the conversation, here: wbur.fm/3RuyrOa