The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

52m

Documentary History TV Movie

7.7

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.

Cast

Self - Narrator (voice)

Green Book Excerpts Narrator (voice)

Marquette Folley

Self - Smithsonian Institute Member

Karen Allen Baxter

Henrie Monteith Treadwel

Self - Civil Rights Activist

Self - Journalist and Local Historian

Self - Pierce City Resident

Self - Local Historian

Eric J. Lindsey

Self - Idlewild Resident

Ronald J. Stephens

Marilyn S. Taylor

Self - Idlewild Resident

Betty Jean Foote

Self - Phil Giles' Wife

Self - Flamingo Bar Waitress

Self - Musician

Elizabeth Calvin

Self - Alberta Ellis' Grandchild

Self - Alberta Ellis' Grandchild

Self - NTHP Member

Self - Singer (archive footage)

Self - Musician (archive footage)

Self - Musician (archive footage)

Modjeska Monteith Simkins

Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)

Self - Businessman (archive footage)

Ralph Abernathy

Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)

Lyndon B. Johnson

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Self - LBJ's Cook (archive footage)

Crew

Director, Writer

Cinzia Baldessari

Director of Photography

Head of Production

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Michael Velasco

Sound Recordist

Sound Recordist

Original Music Composer

Production Manager