The controversial film Green Book just won an Oscar for Best Picture. If you’ve missed the film and all the media coverage, the story is about segregation during the Jim Crow Era as a black pianist and his white driver tour the South. The Green Book of the title was a travel guide published from 1936 to 1966 by Victor Hugo Green with lists of lodgings and restaurants that would accommodate black travelers. .. Although its schools were not s...
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