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DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM & Marcus Books present:\nGRETCHEN SORIN - a webinar - 
 Oct. 27, Tuesday, 7PM\nDriving While Black: African American Travel and the 
 Road to Civil Rights\nWith Sabrina Jacobs\n\nDriving While Black explains 
 clearly how the automobile fundamentally changed African American 
 Life.\n\n"Gretchen Sorin has spent decades exploring this deeply 
 researched, acutely felt, penetrating study of race, space, and mobility in 
 America-and a lifetime thinking about the issues and experiences that 
 underlie it. "No one who reads Driving While Black can fail to be moved and 
 wonderstruck by how far American society has come in the last century and a 
 half in forwarding the dream of equal mobility for  all, and by how far we 
 still have to go."\n-Ric Burns, documentary filmmaker and writer\n   \nThe 
 ultimate symbol of independence and possibility, the automobile has always 
 held distinct importance for African Americans, allowing black families to 
 evade the many dangers presented by our racist society, and to enjoy - in 
 some measure - the freedom of the open road. Gretchen Sorin recovers the 
 forgotten history of black motorists and recounts their creation of a 
 parallel, unseen world of travel guides, black-only hotels, and informal 
 communication networks that kept black drivers safe. At the heart of this 
 story is Victor and Alma Green's famous Green Book, which made possible 
 that most basic American right-the family vacation-and encouraged a new 
 method of resisting oppression.  Enlivened by Sorin's personal history, 
 Driving While Black shows why travel was central to the civil rights' 
 movement. \n\nGretchen Sorin is Distinguished Professor and Director of the 
 Cooperstown Graduate Program of the State University of New 
 York.\n\nSabrina Jacobs is host and producer of the popular A Rude 
 Awakening, aired on KPFA Radio Monday afternoons. Ms. Jacobs is also 
 currently serving as staff representative/vice chair of Pacifica Radio's 
 National Board.\n\nSuggested Donation $5-$20.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/07/18837387.php
SUMMARY:Gretchen Sorin: Driving While Black: African-American Travel & Civil Rights
LOCATION:Online webinar
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/07/18837387.php
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