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The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

The essential travel guide for a segregated America

2019•52m•7.7/10
DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie

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7.7/10(62)

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.

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Production

Impossible Factual, Smithsonian Channel

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Trailers & Videos

Cast

Yoruba Richen

Yoruba Richen

Self - Narrator (voice)

Delbert Hunt

Green Book Excerpts Narrator (voice)

Marquette Folley

Self - Smithsonian Institute Member

Karen Allen Baxter

Self

Jennifer Ivey

Self

Henrie Monteith Treadwel

Self - Civil Rights Activist

Murray Bishoff

Self - Journalist and Local Historian

Jack George

Self - Pierce City Resident

Jamon Jordan

Self - Local Historian

Candacy Taylor

Self - Author

Eric J. Lindsey

Self - Idlewild Resident

Ronald J. Stephens

Self - Author

Marilyn S. Taylor

Self - Idlewild Resident

Betty Jean Foote

Self - Phil Giles' Wife

Lois Perry

Self - Flamingo Bar Waitress

Ron Handy

Self - Musician

Elizabeth Calvin

Self - Alberta Ellis' Grandchild

Irv Logan

Self - Alberta Ellis' Grandchild

Brent Leggs

Self - NTHP Member

Carol Jenkins

Self - Author

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