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The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

7.7 52 mins Documentary   History   TV Movie   2019
Impossible Factual   Smithsonian Channel  
Director(s): Yoruba Richen

Release Date: 25 Mon, Feb 2019

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.

Casts of The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

Yoruba Richen

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Delbert Hunt

as Green Book Excerpts Narrator (voice)

Marquette Folley

as Self - Smithsonian Institute Member

Jennifer Ivey

as Self

Henrie Monteith Treadwel

as Self - Civil Rights Activist

Murray Bishoff

as Self - Journalist and Local Historian

Jack George

as Self - Pierce City Resident

Jamon Jordan

as Self - Local Historian

Candacy Taylor

as Self - Author

Eric J. Lindsey

as Self - Idlewild Resident

Ronald J. Stephens

as Self - Author

Marilyn S. Taylor

as Self - Idlewild Resident

Betty Jean Foote

as Self - Phil Giles' Wife

Lois Perry

as Self - Flamingo Bar Waitress

Ron Handy

as Self - Musician

Elizabeth Calvin

as Self - Alberta Ellis' Grandchild

Irv Logan

as Self - Alberta Ellis' Grandchild

Brent Leggs

as Self - NTHP Member

Carol Jenkins

as Self - Author

Lena Horne

as Self - Singer (archive footage)

Duke Ellington

as Self - Musician (archive footage)

Nat King Cole

as Self - Musician (archive footage)

Modjeska Monteith Simkins

as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.

as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)

A. G. Gaston

as Self - Businessman (archive footage)

Ralph Abernathy

as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)

Lyndon B. Johnson

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Zephyr Wright

as Self - LBJ's Cook (archive footage)

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