[video clip] where are you from? new york city, manhattan. my parents lived in our home when i was born. lived in harlem when i was born. i lived and moved in queens. your parents met here? they met in kansas, where my mother lived, and my mother grew the up. during world war ii, my father was stationed there. that is when they met. then my father was sent to france, and when the war was over they got married and moved to new york. . and that is where i was born. at the woman s hospital? the woman s hospital, which is no longer there, near columbia university. and your family would go back south for holidays and summer vacations, weddings and funerals, things like that? you go south to her three times a year. we would go for thanksgiving, holidays mainly. christmas, and we would visit my mother s family in kansas. this was before interstate highways as well. to lane, blacktop highway spread exactly. mountains of west virginia. what about food? issue sp
books in the rack outside the pump. , found crosby s motel in pensacola, florida. my parents owned the first fully accredited african-american owned travel agency in the united states. they were able to convince people over time. it took many groups and eventually thousands of people. between the fighting, the dogs, the people that had died for the right for us to stay anywhere. [applause] is my pleasure to introduce calvin ramsey. an author, photographer, and playwright whose works has been shown around the country, showing the light on missing pages of african-american history. his plays bring the audience closer to truth. ,is first play the green book had its premiere. it then one recognition as a finalist in the last frontier contest in alaska where it was critiqued by playwrights and directors. the success was well above other critically acclaimed work, of theng his exploration career of an african-american actor and civil rights activist. he has been on the collection
this wasn t a history that you could find. betty at first was surprised there was such a thing as a black marine. you don t believe it, ask a tuskegee airman. he ll tell you. victor green was a mailman for 40 years, lived in harlem, lived right across the street from duke ellington. victor green was a man with a seventh grade education yet he put together a publication that touched all aspects of life. my parents liked to travel. they figured that was helpful for our education. the thing was, finding the black section of town and you used the green book to find places to eat so i always knew that we couldn t stay places. mr. green was distinguished and even as a child, a very lovely man, and i would say it was unusual to have a black client working with a white printer. the green book, my dad found what was the first place that he could stay between new orleans and the end of the drive for that first day. and the next day we drove all the way to miami and we s
i saw a lot of hands. okay. i was curious about hotels in new york. i mean i know my parents stayed at one of the few hotels in new york that allowed black people to stay there. well, you know, it was different. like up where i interviewed paula, up at the polo grounds, she mentioned in her building at one time walter white from the naacp, thurgood marshal stayed there, judge bruce wright stayed there at one time in that building. but further up is a building count 555. gnat king cole would come in town and he couldn t stay in town. he could playdown town but couldn t stay downtown. what years were your parents stay ting there? they got married in 54. well you know, i guess it happens. but i know i read his article not too long ago that hairy bell fon taye was having a hard time finding a place. he ended up buying the building and sold the penthouse to lena horne. that s how he was able to get in the upper westside. do you know the websites url for the green book
satellite radar showing we re dry. few high clouds around. nothing to about. as for our day side planner at 1:00 a.m. look for temperatures in the mid-30s bumping up to mid-40s by late afternoon and cooling off and quite chilly but clear as we move into saturday night. i ll be back with more in just a bit. now to that breaking news. philadelphia police are on the hunt for two passengers who was with the cab driver that was shot. reporter: i m told from the dispatcher of that cab company that that van picked up those passengers right here at wharton and broad street. the driver was making about a mile and a half away to point breeze when the drive ended in gunfire and a crash. the cab driver is at the hospital and is in stable condition. we watched philadelphia police tow the taxi way. about three hours earlier neighbors called police. they heard a gunshot and the cab hit several cars. you can see the damage to the front end tire. we confirmed with officers based on early