Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance Hall Alvin
The witnesses of segregation still live among us, and award-winning broadcaster and educator Alvin Hall sets out to record their dramatic memories. He uses The Green Book, the guide that helped Black…
Specifikacia Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance Hall Alvin
The witnesses of segregation still live among us, and award-winning broadcaster and educator Alvin Hall sets out to record their dramatic memories. He uses The Green Book, the guide that helped Black people travel safely on the nation's highways and roadways to create a moving, vital story of our past.Driving the Green Book explores the history of America's segregated past, through a journey across terrain once considered too dangerous for a Black traveler to navigate--and which still bears those scars.Between 1936 and 1967, The Negro Motorist Green Book guided black travelers to hotels, restaurants and other businesses where they could safely rest and eat a meal. Alvin Hall, along with activist Jane Woods Weber, travels from New York to Detroit to New Orleans using the former Green Books as a guide,
The Green Man of Eshwood Hall