The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
Release Date: 2019-02-25
Runtime: 52 min
Genre(s): documentary, History, TV Movie
Director: Yoruba Richen
Producer(s): Adam Luria
Production Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
Original Language: English
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.
Cast:
A. G. Gaston, Betty Jean Foote, Brent Leggs, Candacy Taylor, Carol Jenkins, Delbert Hunt, Duke Ellington, Elizabeth Calvin, Eric J. Lindsey, Henrie Monteith Treadwel, Irv Logan, Jack George, Jamon Jordan, Jennifer Ivey, Karen Allen Baxter, Lena Horne, Lois Perry, Lyndon B. Johnson, Marilyn S. Taylor, Marquette Folley, Martin Luther King Jr., Modjeska Monteith Simkins, Murray Bishoff, Nat King Cole, Ralph Abernathy, Ron Handy, Ronald J. Stephens, Yoruba Richen, Zephyr Wright
Crew:
Linda Goldman (Executive Producer), Jonathan Drake (Executive Producer), Cinzia Baldessari (Editor), Adam Luria (Producer), Anna Wasiuta (Production Manager), Yoruba Richen (Writer), Yoruba Richen (Director), Ariel Grandoli (Director of Photography), Aisha Hallgren (Sound Recordist), Kathryn Bostic (Original Music Composer), Michael Velasco (Sound Recordist), Steve Maher (Executive Producer), Sarah Jones (Head of Production)