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The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

"The essential travel guide for a segregated America"

7.7(60 votes)
2019
0h 52m
DocumentaryHistoryTV 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.

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Companies:
Impossible Factual
Smithsonian Channel

Languages

Original:en
Spoken:
English

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