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The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

The essential travel guide for a segregated America

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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.

Directed by Yoruba Richen

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The cast

Faces behind the story

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