The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

2019    52m    TV-PG
8.277%
In the 1930s, a black postal carrier from Harlem named Victor Green published a book that was part travel guide and part survival guide. It was called The Negro Motorist Green Book, and it helped African-Americans navigate safe passage across America well into the 1960s. Explore some of the segregated nation's safe havens and notorious "sundown towns" and witness stories of struggle and indignity as well as opportunity and triumph.
Directed By
Yoruba Richen
Written By
Yoruba Richen
Studio
Impossible Factual, Smithsonian Channel

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Cast of The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
  • Yoruba RichenSelf - Narrator (voice)
  • Delbert HuntGreen Book Excerpts Narrator (voice)
  • Marquette FolleySelf - Smithsonian Institute Member
  • Karen Allen BaxterSelf
  • Jennifer IveySelf
  • Henrie Monteith TreadwelSelf - Civil Rights Activist
  • Murray BishoffSelf - Journalist and Local Historian
  • Jack GeorgeSelf - Pierce City Resident
  • Jamon JordanSelf - Local Historian
  • Candacy TaylorSelf - Author
  • Eric J. LindseySelf - Idlewild Resident
  • Ronald J. StephensSelf - Author
  • Marilyn S. TaylorSelf - Idlewild Resident
  • Betty Jean FooteSelf - Phil Giles' Wife
  • Lois PerrySelf - Flamingo Bar Waitress
  • Ron HandySelf - Musician
  • Elizabeth CalvinSelf - Alberta Ellis' Grandchild
  • Irv LoganSelf - Alberta Ellis' Grandchild
  • Brent LeggsSelf - NTHP Member
  • Carol JenkinsSelf - Author
  • Lena HorneSelf - Singer (archive footage)
  • Duke EllingtonSelf - Musician (archive footage)
  • Nat King ColeSelf - Musician (archive footage)
  • Modjeska Monteith SimkinsSelf - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
  • Martin Luther King Jr.Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
  • A. G. GastonSelf - Businessman (archive footage)
  • Ralph AbernathySelf - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
  • Lyndon B. JohnsonSelf - Politician (archive footage)
  • Zephyr WrightSelf - LBJ's Cook (archive footage)

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