The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

The Green Book: Guide to Freedom (2019)

February 25th, 20190h 52min

Documentary, History, TV Movie
77%

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.


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