Driving the Green Book

Macmillan

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, personal testimony about how Black Americans used the historic travel guide The Negro Motorist's Green Book during the height of segregation as a vital resource to quell fears, find safe havens, and travel with dignity. As he drives the Green Book, Alvin unearths both inspiring and heartbreaking tales that tell a different story from what Hollywood would have you believe. Driving the Green Book is a living history podcast that preserves a p...

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Driving the Green Book

Episodes (14)

Apr 24, 2023 Bonus: Two eyewitnesses to the Green Book
Feb 18, 2022 Book Preview: How We Can Win: Race, History, and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged
Apr 27, 2021 Book Preview: Buses Are A Comin'

Driving the Green Book

Apr 24, 2023
27¼ minutes
25 MB

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, “travel without aggravations and embarrassments.” But what was it really like to use the Green Book as a traveling family? In this bonus episode of Driving the Green Book, host Alvin Hall and associate producer Janée Woods Weber talk with two women whose families used the guide and were eyewitnesses to the period of U.S. history covered in the podcast. Driving the Green Book is now a book, available from HarperO...

Driving the Green Book

Bonus: Two eyewitnesses to the Green Book

Macmillan

00:00 -27:19