Gretchen Sorin is a distinguished Professor and director of the Cooperstown Graduate Program, one of the oldest Museum Studies graduate programs in the U.S. She is also the author of “Driving While Black,” a book that examines how the automobile fundamentally changed African American life. Jared & Jordan speak with her about the painful history of slavery and segregation, the importance of the automobile to the civil rights movement, and how travel helps to combat prejudice.
