She developed the film with director Ric Burns based on her book "Driving While Black: African American Travel And The Road To Civil Rights." GRETCHEN SORIN: Mobility is essential to freedom.ĭEGGANS: That's historian Gretchen Sorin. (SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "DRIVING WHILE BLACK") NPR TV critic Eric Deggans says that after watching it, you might never look at your car the same way again.ĮRIC DEGGANS, BYLINE: The film "Driving While Black" offers an idea that's both eye-opening and surprisingly simple - that much of the nation's turmoil over slavery, racial issues and civil rights connects to the ability of Black people to move freely through the country. Tonight, PBS debuts "Driving While Black." It's a documentary that posits major events, like the Civil War or the civil rights movement, are connected to the ability, or lack thereof, of Black Americans to travel.
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