Lowell Lecture
Driving While Black
Date & Time
Oct. 6, 2020 at 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Location
John F. Kennedy Library
Columbia Point Boston, MA 02125
Driving Directions
Speaker(s)
Gretchen Sorin, Ric Burns, Emir Lewis, and Spencer Crew
Presenting Organization
Topics
Contact
Kennedy Library Forums (jfkforums@nara.gov, 617-514-1643)
Virtual Forum: Gretchen Sorin, director of the Cooperstown Graduate Program of the State University of New York and author of Driving While Black: African-American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights; director Ric Burns and producer and editor Emir Lewis of the forthcoming PBS documentary Driving While Black based on her research, discuss how the automobile transformed African American life with Spencer Crew, Acting Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.