The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
Release: 2019-02-25
·Runtime: 52m
·★ 7.7
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
United States of America
Production Companies
Impossible Factual
Smithsonian Channel
Cast
Lena Horne
as Self - Singer (archive footage)
Ralph Abernathy
as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
Lyndon B. Johnson
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Duke Ellington
as Self - Musician (archive footage)
Nat King Cole
as Self - Musician (archive footage)
Martin Luther King Jr.
as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
Yoruba Richen
as Self - Narrator (voice)