The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

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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.

Cast

Yoruba Richen

Self - Narrator (voice)

Green Book Excerpts Narrator (voice)

Marquette Folley

Self - Smithsonian Institute Member

Karen Allen Baxter

Henrie Monteith Treadwel

Self - Civil Rights Activist

Self - Journalist and Local Historian

Self - Pierce City Resident

Self - Local Historian

Eric J. Lindsey

Self - Idlewild Resident

Ronald J. Stephens

Marilyn S. Taylor

Self - Idlewild Resident

Betty Jean Foote

Self - Phil Giles' Wife

Self - Flamingo Bar Waitress

Self - Musician

Elizabeth Calvin

Self - Alberta Ellis' Grandchild

Self - Alberta Ellis' Grandchild

Self - NTHP Member

Lena Horne

Self - Singer (archive footage)

Duke Ellington

Self - Musician (archive footage)

Nat King Cole

Self - Musician (archive footage)

Modjeska Monteith Simkins

Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)

Self - Businessman (archive footage)

Ralph Abernathy

Ralph Abernathy

Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Self - LBJ's Cook (archive footage)