• Driving the Green Book

  • By: Macmillan
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Driving the Green Book

By: Macmillan
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  • 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 powerful legacy and honors the stories of those who lived through the era, supported and uplifted each other, and fought for equality. Please be sure to explore the Green Book on our exclusive Apple Maps Guide at apple.co/explorethegreenbook, listen to the show's Apple Music Playlist at apple.co/listentothegreenbook, and find recommended reading in Apple Books at apple.co/alvinhallcollection.
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  • Introducing: Driving the Green Book

    Introducing: Driving the Green Book
    Sep 1 2020

    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 producer Janée Woods Weber as they drive south from Detroit to New Orleans. Along the way, they collect powerful personal testimony from African Americans who used The Negro Motorist Green Book to negotiate travel around the country. Hear sharp insights and eye-opening perspectives about this period in history that give critical context to the struggle for racial justice today. Coming September 15 from Macmillan Podcasts.

    Visit www.drivingthegreenbook.com or follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/greenbookpod for more, including bonus content, photos, and transcripts.

    Driving the Green Book is now a book, available now from HarperOne! Get your copy of Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance, from your local independent bookstore, or from Amazon and Bookshop.org on the web.

    Explore the Green Book on our exclusive Apple Maps Guide at https://apple.co/explorethegreenbook.

    Listen to the show's Apple Music Playlist at https://apple.co/listentothegreenbook.

    Find recommended reading in Apple Books at https://apple.co/alvinhallcollection.

    To share your own Green Book stories with us, email greenbook@macmillan.com.
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    4 mins
  • In the Time of the Green Book

    In the Time of the Green Book
    Sep 14 2020

    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 Negro Motorist Green Book along the way. They hear stories from people who lived through the era of Jim Crow laws and segregation about the harassment they received on cross-country road trips and in their own cities.

    Visit www.drivingthegreenbook.com or follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/greenbookpod for more, including bonus content, photos, and transcripts.

    Driving the Green Book is now a book, available now from HarperOne! Get your copy of Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance, from your local independent bookstore, or from Amazon and Bookshop.org on the web.

    Explore the Green Book on our exclusive Apple Maps Guide at https://apple.co/explorethegreenbook.

    Listen to the show's Apple Music Playlist at https://apple.co/listentothegreenbook.

    Find recommended reading in Apple Books at https://apple.co/alvinhallcollection.

    To share your own Green Book stories with us, email greenbook@macmillan.com.
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    26 mins
  • Victor and Alma

    Victor and Alma
    Sep 22 2020

    Alma and Victor Hugo Green created The Negro Motorist Green Book to reduce the frustrations of African Americans traveling by car around the country. We visit the Schomburg Center in Harlem, New York to see the Green Book archive for ourselves and learn about the creators’ aspirations for the guide and their hope that one day they would no longer need to publish it.

    Visit www.drivingthegreenbook.com or follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/greenbookpod for more, including bonus content, photos, and transcripts.

    Driving the Green Book is now a book, available now from HarperOne! Get your copy of Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance, from your local independent bookstore, or from Amazon and Bookshop.org on the web.

    Explore the Green Book on our exclusive Apple Maps Guide at https://apple.co/explorethegreenbook.

    Listen to the show's Apple Music Playlist at https://apple.co/listentothegreenbook.

    Find recommended reading in Apple Books at https://apple.co/alvinhallcollection.

    To share your own Green Book stories with us, email greenbook@macmillan.com.
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    25 mins

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