Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

The history of African Americans on the road from the 1930s to the late 1960s, a crucial and transformative period in American racial, cultural and social history. As black Americans navigated the brave new world of the automobile and the highway in the last four decades of Jim Crow America, from the depths of the Depression to the heyday of the Civil Rights movement and beyond, they seized opportunities for mobility and freedom in the American landscape as never before.