Bonus: Two eyewitnesses to the Green Book
The Green Book, as it was commonly known, was the definitive guide for Black travelers seeking to, in the words of the guide’s creator, “tra...
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Driving the Green Book
Award-winning broadcaster and educator Alvin Hall hits the road alongside activist and social justice trainer Janée Woods Weber. They drive from Detroit to New Orleans, collecting powerful,...
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Listen to Driving the Green Book, a Society & Culture podcast by Macmillan. Stream 14 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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Book Preview: How We Can Win: Race, History, and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged
Hear an excerpt from the new book, How We Can Win: Race, History, and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged. In it, author and activist Kimb...
Book Preview: Buses Are A Comin'
Although Driving the Green Book is over, today we're sharing a clip from another powerful story about the fight for racial equality. The new...
The Lorraine Motel
Now a National Civil Rights Monument, and best-known as the site where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, the Lorraine Motel in M...
Ghost Towns
Places like Paradise Valley in Detroit and Idlewild, Michigan, catered to African American communities, whether it be to create a thriving d...
Preserving History
The A.G. Gaston Motel in Birmingham, Alabama was considered top-tier lodging for African Americans and an epicenter for the civil rights mov...
A Place to Put It
We explore the emotional legacy of The Negro Motorist Green Book and the inherited wisdom passed down from generation to generation. We also...
The Elders, Living History
The elders who lived through segregation pass down the wisdom and knowledge they gained as they learned to safely navigate extremely tense,...
The Nettles of Nashville
We head to Nashville to trace the legacy of Jim Crow, segregation, and The Negro Motorist Green Book through different generations of one fa...
Mother Wit
How did Black travelers use Mother Wit—common sense insights—to help them survive during the Jim Crow era? We hear how this intuition helped...
Little Harlem, MS
We head to Jackson, Mississippi where we hear local residents and a former Motown musician reminisce about the vivacity of Farish Street—the...
Victor and Alma
Alma and Victor Hugo Green created The Negro Motorist Green Book to reduce the frustrations of African Americans traveling by car around the...
In the Time of the Green Book
Host Alvin Hall and associate producer Janeé Woods Weber take you on a trip from Detroit to New Orleans, stopping at locations listed in The...
Introducing: Driving the Green Book
What was it really like to travel as a Black person in America during the era of Jim Crow laws and segregation? Join host Alvin Hall and pro...
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