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The Green Book: Guide to Freedom(2019)

The essential travel guide for a segregated America

7.8(64)52m2019-02-25

DocumentaryHistoryTV 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:: Yoruba Richen
Writers:: Yoruba Richen
Producers:: Adam Luria
Cinematographer:: Ariel Grandoli
Composer:: Kathryn Bostic
Production:: Impossible Factual, Smithsonian Channel
Status:: Released

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Cast

Yoruba Richen

Yoruba Richen

Self - Narrator (voice)

Delbert Hunt

Delbert Hunt

Green Book Excerpts Narrator (voice)

Marquette Folley

Marquette Folley

Self - Smithsonian Institute Member

Karen Allen Baxter

Karen Allen Baxter

Self

Jennifer Ivey

Jennifer Ivey

Self

Henrie Monteith Treadwel

Henrie Monteith Treadwel

Self - Civil Rights Activist

Murray Bishoff

Murray Bishoff

Self - Journalist and Local Historian

Jack George

Jack George

Self - Pierce City Resident

Jamon Jordan

Jamon Jordan

Self - Local Historian

Candacy Taylor

Candacy Taylor

Self - Author

Eric J. Lindsey

Eric J. Lindsey

Self - Idlewild Resident

Ronald J. Stephens

Ronald J. Stephens

Self - Author