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.
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