Why the Green Book?

I have not heard of The Green Book until the weekend.  The Green Book was a book made by a postal employee with the last name Green.  In pre 1964 or so it was required reading for blacks planning a trip south in the United States, land of the free

Back then blacks were turned away from most motels and restaurants in the south.  It could be dangerous without The Green Book.  It game listings of places and bed and breakfasts that accepted people of color.

Now, it is a movie, which is now being plugged on news shows.   Before writing this I googled Green Book and couldn’t find out anything.  There were a lot about the movie but not about he book or the Jim Crow environment that made The Green Book a necessity.

Is this what some people have in mind when they hear “Make America great again!.”?

One positive thought about this is that common people got to meet well known musicians and other celebrities such as Nat King Cole, Count Base, and so on.  Musicians had to go where there as a fresh audience so they had to go south and instead of staying at a top notch hotel they had to stay at B&B’ and probably got to meet some great people that otherwise wouldn’t have met.