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SUMMARY:History Book Festival Presents Author Gretchen Sorin: Driving While
  Black
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DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with the History Book Festival\, join us to ta
 lk with\nGretchen Sorin\, author of Driving While Black: African American 
 Travel\nand the Road to Civil Rights\, one of the books featured at the 20
 20\nvirtual History Book Festival. The liberating nature of automobiles\nh
 as long been romanticized in song\, film\, and literature\, but that\nnarr
 ative has largely been owned by white Americans. For the average\nblack Am
 erican\, restriction of movement—a holdover from\nslavery—lingered lon
 g into the 20th century and shaped the way\nAfrican Americans navigated be
 hind the wheel. Long car rides and\nvacations required careful preparation
 \, early morning departures\, and\ninfrequent pit stops. In grassroots fas
 hion (most famously with the\n“Green Book” guidebooks)\, a new industr
 y sprang up\, a world of\nblack-only B&B’s\, hotels\, and restaurants th
 at played a vital role\nin the civil rights movement by feeding and housin
 g activists who\ntraveled South to protest. Gretchen Sorinis Distinguished
  Professor\nand Director of the Cooperstown Graduate Program of the State\
 nUniversity of New York. Online program presented by the History Book\nFes
 tival and Lewes Public Library. NOTE: this meeting is being\nconducted thr
 ough Zoom. You MUST REGISTER to receive instructions for\njoining the meet
 ing. Venue: Lewes Public Library.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:In collaboration with the History Book Festiva
 l\, join us to talk with Gretchen Sorin\, author of Driving While Black: A
 frican American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights\, one of the books fea
 tured at the 2020 virtual History Book Festival. The liberating nature of 
 automobiles has long been romanticized in song\, film\, and literature\, b
 ut that narrative has largely been owned by white Americans. For the avera
 ge black American\, restriction of movement—a holdover from slavery—li
 ngered long into the 20th century and shaped the way African Americans nav
 igated behind the wheel. Long car rides and vacations required careful pre
 paration\, early morning departures\, and infrequent pit stops. In grassro
 ots fashion (most famously with the “Green Book” guidebooks)\, a new i
 ndustry sprang up\, a world of black-only B&B’s\, hotels\, and restauran
 ts that played a vital role in the civil rights movement by feeding and ho
 using activists who traveled South to protest. Gretchen Sorinis Distinguis
 hed Professor and Director of the Cooperstown Graduate Program of the Stat
 e University of New York. Online program presented by the History Book Fes
 tival and Lewes Public Library. NOTE: this meeting is being conducted thro
 ugh Zoom. You MUST REGISTER to receive instructions for joining the meetin
 g. Venue: Lewes Public Library.
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