helen levit put it this way. now, i don't think we have seen a case for women having welcomed the automobile as women's liberation. i'm not saying that have none did. surely some did, but it was a mixed story, at best. the same could be said about the role of the automobile in the american city from the point of view of african-americans, all right. here we see a neighborhood of miami called overtown. overtown was nick naked the harlem of the south because all the businesses were black owned. the residences were all black. thriving black community. i'm using the past tense in showing you an old picture because this is overtown in the mid '60s. there's nothing left. angers in every direction has been totally destroyed to make room for the southern end of interstate 95. this does not to me make a case for the interstate highways or cars in general having been a tool of civil rights. it is definitely true that without the car, it could not have successfully organized the montgomery busboy cot of 1955, but clearly th