our room and working together they didn't 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 back then a lot of black women work in their home they don't work outside like today so when you look at the green book the listings in the green book is never a mr so and so's home that's real estate is always mrs brown a 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 you're 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 i have a children's book ruth and the green book i do a lot of sch

the green book was a travel guide published annually by victor greene, beginning in 1936. way guidebook provided a for black travelers, during a period which terrorism and is becomingravel popular across america, the green book provided black travelers a way to find businesses and establishments such as hotels, restaurants and were friendly to black visitors, that would not discriminate under jim crow segregation. which also allowed them to their economic power, which businesses they were going to support with their tourist dollars. and spencer, who was a renowned poet and civil rights activist from lynchburg virginia, and and spencer was part of the flourishing of black culture expression beginning in the 1920's. a flourishing that called the new harlem renaissance. while that phrase come the harlem renaissance, acknowledges the geographical hub of this flowering of cultural expression was in new york city's vibrant black neighborhood of harlem, and spencer made lynchburg, virginia an important satellite of this new negro renaissance. spencer was a poet. she first became k

the green book was a travel guide published annually by victor greene, beginning in 1936. this guidebook provided a way for black travelers, during a period in which tourism and automotive travel is becoming popular across america. the green book provided black travelers a way to find businesses and establishments such as hotels, restaurants and hair salons and so forth that were friendly to black visitors, that would not discriminate under jim crow segregation. the green book was important for black travelers which also allowed them to determine their economic power, which businesses they were going to support with their tourist dollars. it allowed like visitors to find those kinds of establishments friendly to them -- black visitors to find those kinds of establishments early to them. anne spencer was a public -- was a renowned poet and civil rights activist from lynchburg, virginia, and spencer was part of the flourishing of black culture expression beginning in the 1920's. after world war i. a flourishing that called the renaissance, or the new harlem renaissance. while

south but 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 victor hugo green and his wife elmo green african-american people living in our room and.

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