The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

The essential travel guide for a segregated America

7.7(61 votes)
2019
0h 52m
Documentary
History
TV Movie

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.

Production

Impossible Factual, Smithsonian Channel

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

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