Race and maybe mindset but the green book was totally different green book was a it wasnt a luxury where you could just decide who you could spend money with the where you want to sleep or stay green who was really are you head because you could not belong to aaa equal not belong to any car club or hotel clubs that was just a bit and not just in the south with throughout the whole country so the green book was a not a luxury it was a necessity and it was really started by just 2 people a letter carrier vicki who go green and his wife great africanamerican People Living in our room and working together they didnt have any children so this was like their baby and by Victor Greene being a mailman he was able to get other mail men through his union the National Association of pro sort of federal employees so his network of a worker destroyed the country would ask people on their routes what they would they not my being listed in this guide and really it was the black home maker because bac
Help them avoid painful discrimination and segregated south jame crowd may be a saying of the past but for instance film director spike lee believes racism is ingrained in the d. N. A. Of the United States days think it will ever be overcome completely. Well its going to take a long time because you know with the development of the i guess the you know the country with the native americans and with the you know the the many many years of bondage by africans who were brought here you know and then you had the black codes after that and then you had. Jim crow didnt you had reconstruction and so is you know its a lie its a lot you know and but i will say that it has gotten better during my lifetime. Ive seen changes but they came about because people worked to bring those changes black people white people and people of the same i so it wasnt easy the strides that have been made there were hard fought. It off heard that there are special projects and local director is like new orleans blac
Like their baby and by Victor Greene being a mailman he was able to get other mail men through his union the National Association of post or federal employees so his network of federal workers throughout the country would ask people on their routes what they would they not my being listed in this guide and really it was the black home maker because back then a lot of black women work in their home they dont work outside like today so when you look at the green book the listings in the green book is never a mr so and sos home thats less it is always mrs brown or mrs. Smith or mrs so and so and knows how the listings appeared and there were no phone numbers you would just show up but i know youre working on a documentary about the green book do you feel like movies. Movies like that could actually help diffuse the current racial tension in the United States well every little bit helps every little bit helps you know you. Meet people all the time you know have a Childrens Book ruth and th
A real man who is a racist Italian American played by vehicle boards and in the film becomes the chauffeur of a very successful black musician and together in one nine hundred sixty s. Segregationist southern america they travel through the Southern States and. If i describe it you briefly probably say its a bit like driving miss daisy except in kate instead of Morgan Freeman being the chauffeur just that handy in this case you have a white man doing the driving ok so im detecting a slight note of skepticism there but we do learn about the actual green book kind of a Survival Guide for black people traveling in the Southern States at the time and so we went to the source to find out more about it. Columbia South Carolina the deep south musician reggie scott experienced firsthand the dangers that black travellers once faced in the region visitors from the north unfamiliar with the strict racial segregation laws in the south were specially at risk. Your own room you always knew. Because
If i describe it and you briefly probably say its a bit like driving miss daisy except instead of Morgan Freeman being the chauffeur just handing in this case of a white man doing the driving ok so im detecting a slight note of skepticism there but we do learn about the actual green book kind of a Survival Guide for black people traveling in the Southern States at the time and so we went to the source to find out more about it. Come on the South Carolina the deep south musician reggie scott experienced firsthand the dangers that black travelers once faced in the region visitors from the north unfamiliar with the strict racial segregation laws in the south were specially at risk. You always knew. Because you. You have to do anything to be stopped by the police they wouldnt consider harassing to us to be just serious and stop starting in the one nine hundred forty scots arent and mother offered lodging in this house to travellers who were banned from staying at the hotels for whites only