Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil RightsThe basis of a major PBS documentary by Ric Burns, this excellent history (The New Yorker) reveals how the automobile fundamentally changed African American life. Driving While Black demonstrates that the carthe ultimate symbol of independence and possibilityhas always held particular importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and to enjoy, in some measure, the freedom of