![]() ![]() “So you might be subjected to an angry mob or you might be subjected to police officers who were stopping you for just being Black.Įxamples in Texas aren’t hard to come by. “Even though it represented personal freedom to have your own car, you might be stopped or you might be considered to be in the ‘wrong neighborhood,’” Sorin said. 13 on many PBS stations across the country. Her new book is “ Driving While Black,” and it’s now a documentary by the same name, airing Oct. She is a distinguished professor at the State University of New York Oneonta. ![]() And so driving came to represent an opportunity to keep your family from being humiliated.”īut Sorin told Texas Standard that it also comes with risks. “Taking a train or taking a bus, you would be relegated to the Jim Crow section. “Because using public transportation subjected African-Americans to humiliation,” Sorin said. ![]() Historian Gretchen Sorin says driving represents freedom for African-Americans. ![]()
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