The Green Book: Guide to Freedom (2019)

ALL 02/25/2019 (en) Documentary, History, TV Movie 52 Min
  • Release
    02/25/2019
  • Production
    Impossible Factual, Smithsonian Channel
  • Rotten tomato
    76%
  • Original title
    The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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The essential travel guide for a segregated America

Overview

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.

  1. Yoruba Richen

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Adam Luria

    Producer



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  1. Yoruba Richen

    Self - Narrator (voice)

  2. Delbert Hunt

    Green Book Excerpts Narrator (voice)

  3. Marquette Folley

    Self - Smithsonian Institute Member

  4. Karen Allen Baxter

    Self

  5. Jennifer Ivey

    Self

  6. Henrie Monteith Treadwel

    Self - Civil Rights Activist

  7. Murray Bishoff

    Self - Journalist and Local Historian

  8. Jack George

    Self - Pierce City Resident

  9. Jamon Jordan

    Self - Local Historian

  10. Candacy Taylor

    Self - Author

  11. Eric J. Lindsey

    Self - Idlewild Resident

  12. Ronald J. Stephens

    Self - Author

  13. Marilyn S. Taylor

    Self - Idlewild Resident

  14. Betty Jean Foote

    Self - Phil Giles' Wife

  15. Lois Perry

    Self - Flamingo Bar Waitress

  16. Ron Handy

    Self - Musician

  17. Elizabeth Calvin

    Self - Alberta Ellis' Grandchild

  18. Irv Logan

    Self - Alberta Ellis' Grandchild

  19. Brent Leggs

    Self - NTHP Member

  20. Carol Jenkins

    Self - Author

  21. Lena Horne

    Self - Singer (archive footage)

  22. Duke Ellington

    Self - Musician (archive footage)

  23. Nat King Cole

    Self - Musician (archive footage)

  24. Modjeska Monteith Simkins

    Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)

  25. Martin Luther King Jr.

    Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)

  26. A. G. Gaston

    Self - Businessman (archive footage)

  27. Ralph Abernathy

    Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)

  28. Lyndon B. Johnson

    Self - Politician (archive footage)

  29. Zephyr Wright

    Self - LBJ's Cook (archive footage)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 29 , Crews : 13

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The Green Book: Guide to Freedom (2019) 52 Min

ALL 02/25/2019 (en)
Documentary, History, TV Movie
  • Release 02/25/2019
  • Production
    Impossible Factual, Smithsonian Channel
  • Original title The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

The essential travel guide for a segregated America

Overview

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.

  1. Yoruba Richen

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Cinzia Baldessari

    Editor

  4. Adam Luria

    Producer