Driving While Black Featured on Morning Show
December 6, 2020Author and filmmaker Dr. Gretchen Sorin will visit “The Morning Show” on Thursday, December 10th to discuss her book and PBS documentary, “Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights.”
Host Mary Jacobsen will interview Sorin about the history of restricted movement for African Americans dating from the era of slavery past Emancipation into Reconstruction and beyond to the present.
The car, Sorin explains, opened up new possibilities for African Americans to enjoy the open road, and thereby prompted the creation of what she describes as a “parallel, unseen world of black motorists, who relied on travel guides, black only businesses, and informal communications networks to keep them safe.”
These guides included the famous Green Book, which helped grant black Americans that most basic American rite, the family vacation.
Sorin will also address the pivotal role cars played in the Civil Rights movement, including their role in the success of the Montgomery bus boycott.
“The Morning Show” airs Thursday at 9 a.m. on Channel 9 and WJOP (FM 96.3) and live streams on YouTube (visit www.NCMHub.org and click on YouTube). After broadcast, the show is available on the YouTube Playlist for “The Morning Show.”
Each show will also air on WJOP on Friday at 8 a.m. and the following Tuesday at 4 p.m. and Wednesday at 3 p.m., and is available on the Sound Cloud (click on the cloud icon at www.NCMHub.org).
For more information contact:
Mary Jacobsen
(978)255- 7523
OR
Sarah Hayden
Executive Director
Greater Newburyport Community Media
