• Victor and Alma

  • Sep 22 2020
  • Length: 25 mins
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  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)

Victor and Alma

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  • 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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TESTIMONY THAT MUST BE HEARD BY WHITES AS WELL AS BLACKS

I am a 73 year old white New Yorker who as a child had the privilege of being able to sneak into Pearl Bailey’s performance at the Waldorf Hotel.
My family celebrated Thanksgiving in the Peacock Room of the hotel. Please don’t hold it against me that I had a wonderful uncle who could not fit all his family into his house but wanted us all to celebrate Thanksgiving together and could afford to do it.
I NEVER would have imagined that Ms.Bailey had to enter and exist the hotel through a back door! This is a story everyone needs to understand, and I assure you I will make sure the family members who enjoyed those gatherings hear about this- many are already sensitive to the issues but must be willing to continue to grow and find ways to use this powerful story telling to make our fellow fragile woke white folks better understand how far we still have to go.
Hopefully they will use this is podcast and your book to find their own voices to move our broken world forward!!!
It clearly has energized me. THANK YOU!

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