The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

The essential travel guide for a segregated America

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.

Documentary History TV Movie

Yoruba Richen

(Self - Narrator (voice))

Delbert Hunt

(Green Book Excerpts Narrator (voice))

Marquette Folley

(Self - Smithsonian Institute Member)

Karen Allen Baxter

(Self)

Jennifer Ivey

(Self)

Henrie Monteith Treadwel

(Self - Civil Rights Activist)

Murray Bishoff

(Self - Journalist and Local Historian)

Jack George

(Self - Pierce City Resident)

Jamon Jordan

(Self - Local Historian)

Candacy Taylor

(Self - Author)

Eric J. Lindsey

(Self - Idlewild Resident)

Ronald J. Stephens

(Self - Author)

Marilyn S. Taylor

(Self - Idlewild Resident)

Betty Jean Foote

(Self - Phil Giles' Wife)

Lois Perry

(Self - Flamingo Bar Waitress)

Ron Handy

(Self - Musician)

Elizabeth Calvin

(Self - Alberta Ellis' Grandchild)

Irv Logan

(Self - Alberta Ellis' Grandchild)

Brent Leggs

(Self - NTHP Member)

Carol Jenkins

(Self - Author)

Lena Horne

(Self - Singer (archive footage))

Duke Ellington

(Self - Musician (archive footage))

Nat King Cole

(Self - Musician (archive footage))

Modjeska Monteith Simkins

(Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage))

Martin Luther King Jr.

(Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage))

A. G. Gaston

(Self - Businessman (archive footage))

Ralph Abernathy

(Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage))

Lyndon B. Johnson

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Zephyr Wright

(Self - LBJ's Cook (archive footage))