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The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

76 %|Feb 25, 2019|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.

Featured Crew

Linda Goldman
Executive Producer
Jonathan Drake
Executive Producer
Cinzia Baldessari
Editor
Adam Luria
Producer
Anna Wasiuta
Production Manager
Yoruba Richen
Writer
Yoruba Richen
Director
Ariel Grandoli
Director of Photography

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Cast

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