The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

Yoruba Richen
2019-02-25

The essential travel guide for a segregated America
7.7
52 min

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

Name Character Team
Yoruba Richen Self - Narrator (voice) Unowned
Delbert Hunt Green Book Excerpts Narrator (voice) Unowned
Marquette Folley Self - Smithsonian Institute Member Unowned
Karen Allen Baxter Self Unowned
Jennifer Ivey Self Unowned
Henrie Monteith Treadwel Self - Civil Rights Activist Unowned
Murray Bishoff Self - Journalist and Local Historian Unowned
Jack George Self - Pierce City Resident Unowned
Jamon Jordan Self - Local Historian Unowned
Candacy Taylor Self - Author Unowned
Eric J. Lindsey Self - Idlewild Resident Unowned
Ronald J. Stephens Self - Author Unowned
Marilyn S. Taylor Self - Idlewild Resident Unowned
Betty Jean Foote Self - Phil Giles' Wife Unowned
Lois Perry Self - Flamingo Bar Waitress Unowned
Ron Handy Self - Musician Unowned
Elizabeth Calvin Self - Alberta Ellis' Grandchild Unowned
Irv Logan Self - Alberta Ellis' Grandchild Unowned
Brent Leggs Self - NTHP Member Unowned
Carol Jenkins Self - Author Unowned
Lena Horne Self - Singer (archive footage) Unowned
Duke Ellington Self - Musician (archive footage) Unowned
Nat King Cole Self - Musician (archive footage) Unowned
Modjeska Monteith Simkins Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage) Unowned
Martin Luther King Jr. Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage) Unowned
A. G. Gaston Self - Businessman (archive footage) Unowned
Ralph Abernathy Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage) Unowned
Lyndon B. Johnson Self - Politician (archive footage) Unowned
Zephyr Wright Self - LBJ's Cook (archive footage) Unowned