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100 1  Sorin, Gretchen Sullivan,|eauthor. 
245 10 Driving while black :|bAfrican American travel and the 
       road to civil rights /|cGretchen Sorin. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bLiveright Publishing Corporation, a division 
       of W.W. Norton & Company,|c[2020] 
300    xviii, 332 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-318) and 
       index. 
505 00 |tThe journey --|t"Humiliation stalks them" --|tAfrican 
       Americans and the automobile --|t"Through the windshield" 
       --|tDriving while black --|tTravel guides for everyone --
       |tVictor and Alma Green's The Negro motorist green book --
       |t"Where will you stay tonight?" --|t"Vacation without 
       aggravation." 
520    "How the automobile fundamentally changed African American
       life-the true history beyond the Best Picture-winning 
       movie. The ultimate symbol of independence and possibility,
       the automobile has shaped this country from the moment the
       first Model T rolled off Henry Ford's assembly line. Yet 
       cars have always held distinct importance for African 
       Americans, allowing black families to evade the many 
       dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and to 
       enjoy, in some measure, the freedom of the open road. 
       Gretchen Sorin recovers a forgotten history of black 
       motorists, and recounts their creation of a parallel, 
       unseen world of travel guides, black only hotels, and 
       informal communications networks that kept black drivers 
       safe. At the heart of this story is Victor and Alma 
       Green's famous Green Book, begun in 1936, which made 
       possible that most basic American right, the family 
       vacation, and encouraged a new method of resisting 
       oppression. Enlivened by Sorin's personal history, Driving
       While Black opens an entirely new view onto the African 
       American experience, and shows why travel was so central 
       to the Civil Rights movement"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 African Americans|xTravel|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 African American automobile drivers|xHistory|y20th 
       century. 
650  0 Automobile travel|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Segregation in transportation|zUnited States|xHistory
       |y20th century. 
650  0 African Americans|xSegregation|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 African Americans|xSocial conditions|y20th century. 
650  0 Civil rights|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century. 
651  0 United States|xRace relations|xHistory|y20th century.