Joie Ray, from Louisville, Kentucky, became the first African American to receive an American Automobile Association racing license in 1947. Up until then, the American Automobile Association discriminated against African American race car drivers and mechanics from competing against their white counterparts in officially sanctioned American Automobile Association racing events.
The Black History Month vignettes were voiced by actor Richard Gant and produced by Starting Grid, Inc. in 2004.
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