The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
The essential travel guide for a segregated America
2019 · 52m · TV-PG Documentary, History, TV Movie
Overview
In 1936, Victor H. Green (1892-1960) published The Negro Motorist Green Book, a book that was both a travel guide and a survival manual, to help African-Americans navigate safe those regions of the United States where segregation and Jim Crow laws were disgracefully applied.
Director and cast
- Yoruba Richen as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Delbert Hunt as Green Book Excerpts Narrator (voice)
- Marquette Folley as Self - Smithsonian Institute Member
- Karen Allen Baxter as Self
- Jennifer Ivey as Self
- Henrie Monteith Treadwel as Self - Civil Rights Activist
- Murray Bishoff as Self - Journalist and Local Historian
- Jack George as Self - Pierce City Resident
- Jamon Jordan as Self - Local Historian
- Candacy Taylor as Self - Author
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