Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights

by Gretchen Sorin

Book Overview

It's 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 even kidnapped. Restrictions on movement before Emancipation carried over, in different forms, into Reconstruction and beyond; for most of the 20th century, many white Americans felt blithely comfortable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631495690
• ISBN13: 9781631495694
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 9.1"