2019DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie0h 52m

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.

Information

StatusReleased
Original Languageen

Keywords

civil rightsracial segregationracismusa historyjim crow laws

Production

Impossible Factual
Impossible Factual
Smithsonian Channel
Smithsonian Channel