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    Pretty TerryTonja Renée Stidhum
    2/25/19 2:00pm

    But does it have a white guy teaching a black pianist who Little Richard is? Because if it doesn’t, I can’t be bothered.

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      Tonja Renée StidhumPretty Terry
      2/25/19 3:15pm

      ROFL!!! 

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      Best Wishes BishesPretty Terry
      2/25/19 5:25pm

      He’s not white, he’s Italian. Almost as black as black.

      hmmmm.

      Dont worry they ended up lifelong friends tho

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    weapon-a the first try suffers no trollsTonja Renée Stidhum
    2/25/19 3:17pm

    My DVR is already set to record this, twice, in case the 1st scheduled recording doesn’t work as it should. The Negro Motorist Green Book is another thing which perfectly documents the times in which those who relied on it lived. I’ll be watching this with my kids this weekend.

    When I first heard of the Green Book years ago, I found that while my elders had heard of it, some having owned one, noone still had a copy. I’ve looked for one online many times, but mostly I just find closed auctions where one sold for 5 figures.

    And I find reproductions. I finally broke down and bought a reproduction on Amazon. It is fascinating looking at the establishments listed in all the cities I’ve lived in or near. Or some of them, since some cities in the south came into being after the book’s final publishing as a way to keep schools segregated.

    It is quite something to see documented proof of the few establishments people who look like me could reliably call safe when visiting a different city. One thing I saw again and again was people renting rooms for travelers because hotels made few if any rooms available for blacks.

    What our elders endured for us to have what we have...

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      roseofindiaweapon-a the first try suffers no trolls
      2/25/19 7:26pm

      I don’t know if I’ll get brought out of the gray’s for this, but the New York Public Library has them all digitized. One of the things that is extremely interesting, is that the north had sundown towns, too, except they were worse in some ways because according to the interview that the director gave, there was nothing advertising the towns as such. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/the-green-book#/?tab=about

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      FlamingFeministaweapon-a the first try suffers no trolls
      2/25/19 11:27pm

      A documentary has to be the best way to tell this story; especially with the cooperation of the actual people who used it, the proprietors of the Black establishments, etc. I’d even appreciate one or two white upholders of segregation telling us the inside how’s and whys segregation played out...(sic) who am I kidding? Their perspectives would overshadow everything, they’d lie about the reasons, minimize their involvement then sue to get some of the profits!

      I do love a good doc and I'm glad the American ones are getting better, more honest. Eagerly anticipating At the Dark End of the Street - Rosa Parks' fight against Black female rape in the South!

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    Issa TrapTonja Renée Stidhum
    2/25/19 2:27pm

    I already have my DVR set for this. When that academy award winning fiction came out in theaters, I knew I wasn’t going to partake in it.  This, as they say, is the real deal.

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    KeepBringingItTonja Renée Stidhum
    2/28/19 9:12am

    My mother told me about a travel guide for black folks, though I can't recall if she ever called it by name. 1967 is not that long ago. Frankly we could still use a Green Book, to highlight the hellspaces NOT to visit.

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    MwatuangiTonja Renée Stidhum
    2/25/19 3:56pm

    THANK YOU! I definitely will check this out.

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    Makes Me Wonder Why I Even Bring The ThunderTonja Renée Stidhum
    2/25/19 3:23pm

    This documentary looks great, but let me also recommend this children’s book:

    Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin Alexander Ramsey (Author), Gwen Strauss (Author), Floyd Cooper (Illustrator), Carolrhoda Books (November 1, 2010)

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    As for the movie, was anyone really expecting representation when it was all but subtitled, “Hey, my dad knew Don Shirley, an auto biographic by some white guys”?

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