Driving While Black french and Chicago

and Chicago

readers will learn about Ruthless Ruthie—a warrior for equality

an elite corps followed close at its heels

A girl's journey out of the Holocaust

brought black people up against new challenges

Driving While Black french and ChicagoThe basis of a major PBS documentary by Gretchen Sorin and Ric Burns (first airing: October 13, 2020 at 9PM ET), this revelatory history shows how the automobile fundamentally changed African American life. Its hardly a secret that mobility has always been limited, if not impossible, for African Americans. Before the Civil War, masters confined their slaves to their property, while free black people found themselves regularly stopped, questioned, and