Traveling with "The Green Book" during the Jim Crow era
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- Racism was a chilling fact of life that, in 1936, inspired "The Negro Motorist Green Book," a guide to businesses that welcomed African American travelers who faced being turned away or threatened in a time of segregation. Martha Teichner talks with cultural historian Candacy Taylor about the importance of this guide to safe travels in the Jim Crow South.
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There may not be Green Books anymore but there are still Sundown Towns.
name one
Dolores -- None of those are sundown towns as of 2019. Several towns are suspected of having discriminatory or exclusionary policies and procedures but it isn't comparable to decades earlier. It's a misleading label.
Vary sad but oh so true.
@@doloresboston8571 you really think in 2019 you can't go out to eat at night or stay in a hotel in those towns? No way.
@@brendahobbs4486 not true, that's crazy
It's sad. The Green Book was the How Not to Die while traveling books. Never forget.
Music Lover i just ordered 2
There trying to do this now.
Brenda Hobbs
*they're*
Music Lover Young people take a lot for granted now! This happenex when I was a Little Girl not that long ago!
Never heard of it either..I'm 43 years old AA..All things we had to bare..smh
I had never heard of the "Green Book". Thank you for educating me.
So many don't know the struggle or history of African Americans. If more people knew our struggle they would understand our frustrations with complacency and ignorance.
@@crystal9626 FACTS!!
That's not an accident. Even today people try to hide and dismiss how this country has treated and still mistreats black people. Its all by design though.
musicklvr8ify same here, I just learned something.
We need a green book 2019 for tiki torch towns
My parents and their siblings traveled from Alabama to Connecticut many, many times using the Green Book.
Yes my parent's would travel from South and North Carolina to Stamford, CT my dad would tell me how they had to be careful, back at that time.
Remember this when you wish for the "good old days". They weren't good for everybody! Thanks for posting!
A nation divided can not stand.
That's what they mean
This is what trump means when he says "make america great again " its a message of hate not unity.
@@connoro8888 CLOSER is bliss
@@connoro8888 says WHO?
Thus is why my Family still travels with food now on 2019! The more things change, the more they still stay the same
as a adult i still travel that way
Yep we always travelled with our food. Still can't trust the "Micro-aggression" racists to serve us food.
When I was a child in the 70s I never thought about it
I can remember my grandparents using the green book route to their birthplaces every year for our family reunion. I didn't understand until I was older why they just didn't take the "normal" roads. I can also remember going on my first school field trip to D.C. at age 8 and my mother made me so much chicken, fresh yeast rolls, a thermos of soup, and a thermos of tea to take. As one of the 3 black kids in my class, she made sure I had something to eat just in case my teachers or the chaperones (all white) didn't feed me. I can recall the extra prayers and hugs she gave as she dropped me off to school that day. I can remember how worried she was, but didn't know why. Even now as an adult, it bothers me that sometimes I still hesitate when in a room of all white people...It's that initial moment of self-awareness that I am different.
@Edward James May God Bless your sweet Mother. Wow! That touched me.
i can remember the same thing i was on my way to college in 1984 and my mother fixed my chicken and my favorite lemon cake this was not that long ago.
So sad. If I were a mother back then my choice would be to let mine stay home.
I hesitate as well when I'm surrounded by white people. Knowing that they smile to your face but have a whole dialogue in their heads.
the journey is slow. With many set backs. But we're moving forward again.
This segment invokes emotion.
At the 2:00 mark, the background music is a song anyone who is watching this video should go lookup. It’s called “Strange Fruit”, sung by Billie Holiday, based on a poem with the same name. Very haunting lyrics. Good job to CBS with using this background song as a subtle expression of life in the Jim Crow south.
Pretty sure most of us watching this segment know that but there are always kids who may discover and watch it and not know the relevance or depth and complexity and nuance (or lack thereof).
@@mlr4524 Like in Cambridge, MA(across the Charles River from Boston, MA). Someone thought let's call this cocktail strange fruit. Those in the know disapproved. Others who approved of the drink wanted people to stop living in the past. If a bartender said tonight's special is Kristallnacht, the response would be swift and unambiguous. The Green Book was used before and after 1945. German POWS were served inside eating establishments, black soldiers escorting the POWS were not served inside, and sometimes not outside either. In the vid at 9:19, there is a person proudly displaying, Keep Alabama White. USA in 2019, the sign would be held wholeheartedly today by quite a few.
www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2015/02/10/friendly-toast-pulls-drink-called-strange-fruit-off-its-menu/opdPmaZwDIC9UZOmPaam9L/story.html
Cambridge restaurant pulls ‘Strange Fruit’ drink, apologizes
By Meredith Goldstein Globe Staff February 10, 2015
The Friendly Toast in Cambridge has made a public apology and says it will change its menu after a patron inquired about why a drink at the restaurant was named Strange Fruit.
thefriendlytoast.com/regarding-strange-fruit/
mtnjr Song was written by a Jewish school Teacher in the Bronx
mtnjr The song is about LYNCHING
A song on lynching. Also one could get lynched in the north,west, and east.
CBS Sunday Morning should win another Peabody for this segment alone. The show is brilliant every Sunday, but this is a superlative story!
Yes!
DS9Sisko it need to be told
If I'm not mistaken, CBS News has not hired a single Black journalist to cover the 2020 election.
In our toxic political atmosphere, it is a story that NEEDS telling, to remind of us a terrible time when America was NOT SO GREAT!
Well, tweet them, not me. That's a legitimate point and issue, but at the same time it has nothing to do with the exceptional level of storytelling in this segment.@@MYODB-ov9bb
It's sickening how our fellow human beings were treated. You can understand the anger and distrust left in Jim Crow's wake
Heartbreaking injustice ! Makes me angry that so many precious people suffered such horrific injustice :(
It is still happening sad but true. What do you think is going on now.
@@brendahobbs4486 Not to this degree; not legally, as before.
Part of the horror in such horrific injustice is that there were no proper, protective laws for Black Americans. Collectively, we've come a long way.
...still today 2019. 😢Yes. I'm sending my 3rd kid (2 girls last kid / male) to college. We're selecting universities based on which roads / highways he (young black male) will have to travel .
? explain. that makes no sense.
@@GUITARTIME2024 Young black males (and females) are yet stopped by law enforcement units around the U.S. (north and south) while driving to and from college - often! There are many incidents of kids getting confronted and worse!...by other (non-law enforcement 'whites' and also, law enforcement / police) for no apparent reason. We are people ((MS degreed parents: Engineeer & Air Force Vet: Officer ) law abiding, tax paying citizens...our kids are "profiled." This is the insanity we deal with - on any given day. Why do we have to continue producing I.D. for who we are, why we're on I75, I95, I20, I10, or any other highway, roadway...because of - skin color and a 'decent' car? Yes, it does not make sense.
raleighman3000 You're white, have NEVER read or listened to the news lately or past few years. Google any question that you have and read the answers!! Google how often are black men stopped versus white men!!
VFiel You're being realistic and using common sense! I've lived in different parts of the country and driving in the south on some of the back roads was actually one of the most frightening things I've ever done. This happened over 20 years ago when I was in the National Guard. I was driving with 3 other soldiers to another location when we got lost. Came across a VERY small town, no lights, Confederate flag in a window. My 2 soldiers who were black refused to step out of the vehicle and I as a female felt threatened by the flag also. We just used common sense, figured out which way to go and got out of there as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, our Russian president instills Racism, fear, hate, intolerance, ignorance and old stereotypes of people. I wish you and your family a safe future.
Wow. Profoundly sad to think about but glad you are. Sandra Bland's case was beyond haunting - pulled over for a minor traffic infraction and arrested rather than given a simple warning or citation. I'm white but still wouldn't feel safe driving alone in much of this country outside of New England.
We found a green Book in my great grandma's house after she passed!
Had no idea what it was about, wish she would've told us!
It's amazing how black people have continued to always look out for our own throughout history
I bet some good museum or library would love to have it.
U cant read?🤣🤣😬
Our ancestors really went through some sh*t!! Unfortunately are still fighting for the true equality.
My father this is living history.
Ancestors? Most of these people are still alive & their children witness it
@@MizzKru- I was a little girl in the late 60's and Jim Crow was alive and well. It took a while before whites in the south adhered to the civil rights act after it passed.
So true! The sad thing about it is fighting in courts is not going to work, the only way to win is to turn back to the laws of God and it'll happen! Disobeying the laws is what got people in this condition in the first place! The enmity placed between nations that Genesis speaks of is real!
Y'all know there were black people before the 50's and 60's and even before. The term ancestors is partly correct. We've been going through it for decades, centuries even.
This was just evil. I can't even imagine... just the resilience my people had during this time. Who's cutting onions in here?
Me
I'm cutting a whole bag
Damnit Bobby troll elsewhere, loser
Cutting them here too.
@Damnit Bobby no, fuckboy. Are you?
Black people make America great. Seriously... who among us would even want to live in this country - much less be proud of it - without the gains won by the people's struggle for liberation and democracy, the vanguard of which has been (primarily) members of the black community? The white power crowd is not just morally wrong... they're technically wrong as well.
They don’t teach this in school. Wow
Kyana Morse there are somethings in life that we as black people should teach and talk to our children about and not leave it to the education sector
I'm learning about it right now and I need to write an essay making up a scenario that i'm an African American planning a road trip through America in the Jim Crow era using the Green Book to get there.
It’s by design. If you don’t know history, you’re doomed to repeat it. Observe the present.
I wonder why? Oh wait, they want to maintain the status quo of Jim Crow segregation. By teaching this chapter of the green book use would encourage questions about the system in the past and change.
And some ppl still don’t believe this kind of thing happened
How tragic that so many people had to suffer! These are human beings!!!! Makes me sick to my stomach!
The suffering continues. It never ended.
@@Mister006 True!
r pal still suffer
The same things are going on today nothing have changed except we like idiots gave up our businesses to get along with people who hate our guts. We (black) and Hispanics people need to go back to separating ourselves and rebuilding our businesses to help each other
This is why any man who says "make America great" should be forced to remember a time when it wasn't great for a lot of people.
I can’t watch this. It makes me cry. “Man’s inhumanity to man” is incomprehensible. I am old enough to remember the signs, and asking my Mom ,
“ Why?” I was only around five years old and responded, “That’s not fair!” These were some of my favorite musicians. It is painful to see how they were treated. As an old white lady, these memories still hurt my heart. We must never forget, “We are ALL God’s children.” No human being should be treated this way. Looking at the current situation, we must learn from these terrible past mistakes and treat people who are escaping dangerous situations with empathy and respect. Every immigrant child needs to be accounted for and reunited with their families. It would be very easy to have a national website with their photos and information so their families can find them and be reunited. They deserve so much better. We do not want history to repeat itself nor to be remembered for
Inhumane treatment of any of God’s precious children. Kindness is priceless.
It is happening today. Muslim ban, Asylum seekers, LGBTQ in the military, driving while black, barbecuing while black, sleeping while black, sell water while black.
Patricia Burke Beautiful message!!!! Ma'am, God bless you friend. 🌸🌻🌼
Their inhumanity is our reality
And whats really sad and disturbing that there are people today that would welcome those days again.
Patricia Burke Amen!!
Never forget. Never again.
Never move on.
What were we talking about? I forgot.
shirley jones Yes LBJ called blacks the N-Word, but back then that’s what most white folks called black people. The word wasn’t viewed as taboo back then by the majority white population like it is today especially in the South. Where did LBJ fall on social policy when it came to civil rights though?
To add: Always, always teach your children & the next generation our history. It is absolutely essential to our future as a people.
Still happening just no green book
Still exist it hasn't went nowhere!!!
Facts!
I know first hand I couldnt the brazen hate.
Thank you it still here,
We need a updated Green book for this era of Trumpism! Support Black Businesses...
Well stated! The Green book IS just as relevant today as it was "back in the day" for other individuals are "white identified" with negative behaviors. Just as important, the "caring" that our people displayed about one another as well. I paid attention and have learned much from the old heads--they KNEW.
@@septiawoman2911 Well said!
Green book or no book! Everyone needs to wake up the world to let let them know how badly blacks being mistreated for thousands of years.
Make a movie about the black world.
pammens miss lol
….u need a “green book” anywhere u go in NY, for decades, if u don’t live in the neighborhood…I don’t care what skin color u r….
My husband grew up during Jim Crow and civil rights in the south. He remembers as a child there were areas of our city that blacks were not allowed in unless the had a job in the area. He remembers watching his mom scrub floors and work as a maid for a lawyer where she was paid $10 a week. He was spit on as a child if he didn't get off the sidewalk fast enough when white people were walking by. When the highway was being planned, developers came into the black side of town to tear every home down. They recieved money for the homes worth but realtors were not allowed to help blacks finds homes and they were not allowed to purchase homes in white neighborhoods. If you ever have a chance to sit down with an older black person and hear what they went through 24/7 it should help you understand how still today the struggle isn't over.
The south gets the reputation as being racist, and of course it was, but racism and segregation existed all over the country. It just wasn't as institutionalized and prevalent.
Smithsonian magazine noted that the final edition -1966-67- covered pretty much the entire U.S. and even some foreign cities. The article is on their web site.
@@nghtwtchmn129 thanks for sharing! I'll check it out.
What do you mean it "was" racist? lol. There's still plenty of sundown towns.
TheTuellfamily There's plenty of racism to go around up North too to this day! Believe that!
Everything south of Canada is the south.
Being a black octogenarian I recall these matters vividly. I recall also being in the military In France and how non discriminatory the French were. During that time I damn sure wasn't proud of my country and I don't give a damn what any white person thinks.
I definitely understand Michelle Obama's feelings.
The French might not have been racist towards blacks at that period but they were very racist towards the Arab population they occupied, and even the Arab collaborators from French occupied territories who moved to France. I'm not justifying the racism in the US, just pointing out that sometimes we forget racism exists if we're not the target.
@Dickum N Lickum the V: Emperor Of TH-cam. France also has a history of racism through out Africa with the barbarous ways they treated Africans and lest not forget the colonizing France did in Asia. The loved Josephine Baker...big whoop whites loved Black artist in the USA but did not want to sit , live or eat with one.
Thank you for your service Mr. Rogers. The racism that exist still today remains an enormous national embarrassment. To be honest, as a white guy, I thought that there was no racism anymore until Obama got elected and the hatred against him just came pouring out from everywhere. Hopefully our country will be better able to live up to its promise of freedom and equality for all in the future.
The colonizer is always the most wicked with its own conquered Black populace. Camp de Thiaroye is on youtube. French massacre of their African Ww2 soldiers.
@Nightmare Nightmare I care about them as do many other people. Not very Christian of you to speak that way
Not obsolete. August 2017 “NAACP issues its first statewide travel advisory, for Missouri”
Nuthn but TRUTHS sir. Mo is jus awful! Born n raised but i managed 2 get out. Dont 4get there is a good ol town there where the local police force (biggest n the state) that happens 2 STILL b under STATE CONTROL since prohibition era. So...idk how much 1 could say about this place 'cept its a continual cesspool that will NEVER change. They r arrogant n their violence towards "blacks" NATIVES (yea, i said it!) n it aint even a "southern" state. So...
*i made it out tho...*
malkina x glad you made it out
@@incognitonegress3453 👍
Propaganda
Don't get caught outside St. Louis Columbia or KC
I think it was no accident Green Book was sold in Esso gas stations. This was the oil corporation with biggest outreach into Europe and other parts of the world making it a little less insular. But the whole story is really sad.
Yes, all the Esso gas stations had them along with regular road maps.
So, you mean to tell me that "The Green Book" was basically the first Air B&B? I ain't too far from Columbia, SC, I'm going to have to visit that historic home.
My father is 63 years old and he would tell us about the green book and sundown towns when we were children. This isn’t distant history. It’s a part of our American modern history.
I was utterly fascinated by this and also saddened that people had to go thru this in daily life.
I am from the south.Well my I had a friend and I brought her to my granddads house and it just took a little 3 grade girl to make him change is heart. He was how could I hate a beautiful little one. and hate was lifted out of him . and he swear right then he would never hate anyone ever again
That sounds like peed on my leg and told me it was raining.
That's wonderful his CONSCIENCE kicked in. Your friends family were probably PRAYING for your Granddaddy since they knew their child was going to be with you therefore the prospect of being around someone like him.
That man having to lie about his car, wife and kid. It just makes you wonder about today where a black man driving a nice car can be stopped because of the assumption that he might have stolen the car.
So true.
Martinsville, Indiana was a Sundown Town into the 1970s. That means all African Americans had to be out by sundown. In 1968, an African American high school student was selling encylopedias door to door after school. She was from another town, and since it was winter, the sunset early, so she didn't make it out in time. She was MURDERED by two residence of Martinsville. One murderer died and confessed the crime on his deathbed, but he did not name the other killer. The other killer might still be living and perhaps in Martinsville to this day.
Yes, that is what racists do:protect one another as they hide their deeds.
Wow...smh
If you haven't seen the movie, watch it!!!! It's wonderful, it deserves an Academy Award.
I rarely go to the movies and didn't know about this one but will be taking my son tonight.
Sochi314 I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
The movie is not a real representation of the time. I skip all "white Savior" movies.
@@5504berry - Of course. Because Black people saved themselves w no help from whites. Lol. Should you even be over here watching this on this "White" Network? Lol
@@janjISMYname when there is a disproportionate amount of movies showing some Caucasian saving some black person out of the goodness of their heart that is called a white savior complex. The problem is it is so readily represented on television and the movies that most confused black people think that's the only way that we were able to achieve the advancements that we have made. What I said was this isn't a all or nothing situation there has to be a balance and if you don't understand that I don't know what else to tell you.
Military used to give it too during the 50s. My father and mother used to plot the route! I never forget and as a Hidden Figure and rare Particle Physicist, I feel satisfied for my parents!!
I applaud Mr. Green for his sheer genius and bravery! Literally a guiding light for generations to follow
In February me , my wife, my teen son, and my wife’s uncle and two aunts were traveling from our hometown Memphis to Atlanta. We had just crossed into the Alabama state line and noticed a police car cross over to our side of the expressway from the other side. My wife’s Uncle, who was sitting in the front passenger seat , and I had just been taking about the green book and the way it was for black folks to travel back then , and also in the 70’s and 80’s. The white policeman stopped us and asked in a very aggressive manner “ what’s your hurry today?” “ where are y’all going?” I explained to him the we were going to Atlanta, and he lied and says we were clocked at 91 mph, I told him in my whole 58 years I have never ever driven at 90 mph anywhere . And my Uncle also knew I wasn’t going that fast. Once he wrote the ticket he was in a hurry to get back to stop other people. I told them he was just trying to make money for his district, it was so obvious. But it still felt like we were back there in the 60’s and 70’s .
This made me cry!!!
I wish we knew how great we ARE!!
This is the America I think of when they say, "Make America Great Again!"
I recall my grandparents talking about this story I'm from Mississippi real talk.
This is the first I heard about the green book. My granddad, a white man, put some folks up in his farmhouse, when they were not allowed to stay in the small town hotel. I looked in the 1948 Green Book on line, and did not see his home listed, but I did see one of his relatives from a couple of towns over listed. Very interesting documentary. Thanks.
because he would have also been discriminated against for helping
@@firstchoice4527 No, he would have been killed. It was illegal for blacks and whites to be under the same roof as equals, Jim Crow.
@@firstchoice4527 he woulda been called a ni##a lover by the local yocals and depending on the situation been threatened, beaten and house burned to the ground.
@@robertwashington2483 live and sleep in the same house, ride in the same car, hold hands, Jim Crow was staunch segregation damn near like apartheid.
I remember in 2001, my husband and I rented a cabin in Blue Ridge Ga, the owners were very welcoming n pleasant.
We went to their local store “chain store” and we were like celebrities, so many stares and the thing is, that they were more into the fact that they were seeing black people in the flesh and not on tv. They weren’t mean or anything like that, they were excited.
Til this day, we laugh about it and because we brought back a souvenir that took nine months
Renting the cabin was their source of income and they knew you all had money to spend and that you all would pass the word, possibly stop by again, they're not stupid, they're shrewed business peopme.
"BACK IN A HOSTILE TIME"...we still are in a hostile time. The only difference is that everything went electronic from paper.
This breaks my heart! ..... and still broken hearted to this day! Enough is enough!!!
Wow. Never heard of the Green Book. This is just so amazing that you would have to depend on a book as to where you could travel or sleep at night. Very sad.
We need these now
It’s 2020 and there’s still sundown towns. Especially in Alabama and Mississippi
2019 advice to Blacks traveling through the Midwest and Great Plains states: Never ever stop at a town with only one exit.
Probably no one will speak to a black person, but half the town may come by to stare at them.
thats absurd
@@GUITARTIME2024 no it's not
I live in one of those Midwest states. Plenty of people will talk to you if you stop by, they'll probably feed you too if you stick around for more than 5 minutes. No matter if you're black, brown, white, red, purple or green.
@@GUITARTIME2024 From where are you? Are you an American born and bred here?
I haven't really spent time in those areas outside of Chicago, but I can speak to a trip to New Orleans. I began a conversation with a young African American woman while out and about on the river walkway - don't recall the topic, if anything beyond the weather. She was confused that I was speaking to her and outright told me that white people usually didn't talk to her! I really was taken aback and saddened by that. (Granted, here I was the 'outsider', not her.)
Another vibrant reason for us to watch this show every Sunday. Other than the wretched opening music the show is one of the best things on TV.
It’s terrible that racism continue to this day. We need to love each other as human beings. We are all the same color on the inside.
I remember my Great Uncle talking about the Green Book. He owned a small pharmacy and soda shop and had to travel to pick up supplies. UPS and FedX didn't exist and if they did, their routes didn't travel to Black neighborhoods. He talked about using it still when my Mom went to college in the 70s. I'm not sure if my Mom has his copy stored somewhere or not. He even kept a little Black Book of his own with addresses and phone numbers of people to contact when he traveled. I worked in the hotel business for over a decade and saw 1st hand how Black families and groups/organizations were treated differently than whites. Security was increased. Prices at the restaurant and bar were changed dramatically. Even the menus changed. High end liquor was kept in short supply. The talk amongst the Managers and staff was different, by that you could always tell if the group/business/organization was Black or White. That knowledge helps me greatly to this day to navigate the world of hotels and event planning. It's a shame that in 2020 we're still navigating the world of Jim Crow.
I thoroughly enjoyed this. I cried, I always do. Thanks for sharing this.
*Being from Texas, as a kid i still remember areas that had signs like that still hanging up in the 90's, the signs are long gone but that doesn't change the way it is in those areas! Sad but true, but they try to act like this was so long ago and things have changed so much! smh*
Loved this piece! Ive been to Charlies and am of Greek decent and 429 Columbus Ave is in the South End not Southie two different neighborhoods. I"ll be visiting Charlies soon and will imagine Cab Calloway and Sammy Davis Jr in that establishment and sit in wonder, in the South End.
THANK YOU FOR SHARING, MANY PRAYERS, AND, BLESSINGS!
Never again, never again should our nation have such wide spread hatred and distrust of people for their skin, their culture, their background, who they love or their gender...thank you for this story so we can all learn!
Amen
It continues to happen everyday in one form or another. There is a white supremacist in the WH. He is doing it to muslims, brown asylum seekers and LGBTQ in the military. And the cops are doing it to Brown/Black men everyday on the streets in our major cities.
Lmao it wasn't hatred it's called keep to your own kind. Something blacks know very well but whites have forgotten.
Jennifer D. Unless it’s against white heterosexual men.
pakpala1 I happen to believe that we should be concerned about a religion who’s holy book says “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve, therefore strike off their heads and fingers “ ( Quran 8:12). And I cannot understand how liberals support Islam considering how they treat women.
I remember going down to Kentucky during the 1950’s. My parents packed a big picnic basket full of food. And, we’d stop and eat on the side of the road. The restroom was the bushes. All the kids stayed down south in the summer with grand parents and relatives. I stayed on my great aunt and uncle’s farm. At the movies, all “colored people” had to sit in the balcony called the crows nest. And entered and exited the theater by the side door entrance; only whites used the front entrance. By 1965, the only place my family felt safe enough to stop to eat before entering the south was Howard Johnson’s. Although we vacationed in lots of states in the north, my mom said she’d never go any further south than Kentucky. And, she didn’t until 1974, she visited Atlanta.
You're right. As a little girl in the late 60's, the bushes were the restroom in the south...so embarrassing.
Umm, the south is still segregated.
pippa Lee Sure is. Just more subtle these days
So is Chicago. The North isn't clean of the great American sin of racism and don't let them tell you other wise its disrespect to those who suffered these injustices in the past and who suffer injustice presently.
FACT
I think you can include the North bit too.
I had a private prep Christian education, I never was thought about black history, at all ! I’m glad I’m beginning to finally learn, it’s important!
The more I learn about what black people had to go through I think that’s so terrible, but I keep learning more and more of the crap my race put them through. Thank you for educating me cbs!
They should teach this in school.
@@satchelmouth1 Jesus, they do not teach you this in school? (I am not an North American , it’s really a question)
@@fucku815no this is not taught in school. Much of this side of American History has been hidden and set aside where certain people just which that it would simply go away.
I really enjoyed that I wish I have someone talk to in my family to see if they remember anything's like that
America you have blood on your hands. Remember your punishment is coming.
FACT
🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
They need a bronze statue of the guy at the end w the sign. On the plaque below, “May we never forget” Put it where Lee’s statue was !!
My parents are both in their 80's... And they never told me about the GREENBOOK... Thank you very much...
Powerful !
I like how the reporter act like that much has changed
Aaron Cooper Yeah. How naive!
Right it really just goes to show how from fr removed she is from the realities that black people had to face back then and even now.
The Green Book was "life". History must be told,. Never forget.
Thank you...
I can hear it now...."Ohh that was 400yrs ago!" As a kid in the 60's I'd visit family near New Orleans and E. Texas, it was a real patch work of routes to get around the good christian towns that hated us.
I had no idea... heartbreaking.
sheafamily3 Thank you for your comment. Please educate others.
Yes, thank you
please bring it back we need it now more than ever
My mother left the south to get away from all of this. Her memories of blatant racism have affected her life profoundly, to this day. You move forward in life, but you can't erase the hurt & the pain it has caused. And a lot of folks can't understand bc they never had to experience such hatred. Things have changed, somewhat. We still have a long ways to go though.
How can anyone dislike this? What is it you dislike?
Black kings and queens!!!!
Leon Tyson lol
Drew Hendley what’s funny Drew Carey
only in africa
B S all around the globe
@@notsure6187 you mean all over the globe... Pre- white man
Thanks for the knowledge. Black History should be taught in our Schools not just for the month of February. It's so much we are still learning today.
There is still a green book somewhere on the internet.
😢Yes. I'm sending my 3rd kid (2 girls last kid / male) to college. We're selecting universities based on which roads / highways he (young black male) will have to travel .
@@vfiel4111 My Hispanic friend and his white wife get pulled over on 1-35 all the time. Always looking for weight of either dope or weed. He has 2 young kids and they fit a profile. He conceals and carries too. One time he had a little bit of weed and they let them go.
@@demogog3449 I don't understand
Thanks, I remember, my grandmother and others the Black Code, the green book help my people. Thanks
Thank you for sharing. I have never heard of the green book but it is an important part of our history. Thanks again
Still need green book today in 2019
It's unbelievable it was just 50 years ago.
Which means that they are certainly a lot of people still alive to tell their story.
The people who enacted this
Law their children and their children’s children should pay for this what a disgrace..
Yes! Absolutely.
Should the children of the pilots who dropped bombs on Pearl Harbor pay money to the children of the victims?
@@nonyabidness5708 Germany had to pay for WWI
They had to pay 30 million dollars and they finally paid it off a couple years ago
Nonya Bidness
Of course...
But it wouldn’t be the pilots it would be the people who own the aircraft..the country
Who caused the problem although now we are globally broke bankrupt every nation so how will they ever pay only through land.. and why do I have a feeling that’s going to be forced👁🤔
@@isartoraplatz You can't hold people's offspring responsible for what their parents did. What nonsense.
those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. we must never let facts like these die.
Thank you Historian Candace Taylor for driving so far to document this evidence of humanity
Love this story and glad I know why the green book story is and the reason we are now talking about it Great reporting
Went hand in hand with the Chitlin circuit!
Never even heard of the green book till today!
Dear god, Mary wilson still looks stunning. Thank god for Melanin!
That's what this is really all about isn't it?
Mary Wilson, passed away on the day of commenting on 9th February 2021 aged 76. Rest in peace to a Motown legend
Still needed
What a prolific story. We really don't have a clue what Blacks went through just to enjoy "the American Dream". Has much changed in 2019?? One has to wonder...🤔
callie ford Yeah. With Trump IN Office it does make me wonder
Nothing
Callie ford: as being a mid boomer, myself see that nothing has changed, just a different face
What gets me is that the use of the Green Book wasn't that long ago. My father forgot about the Green Book, but when the movie came out, he began to remember owning one of the books. Also, my mother remember as a child that my grandmother used a copy of that book when she traveled as an Eastern Star. After all of this knowledge, it saddens me to know that there is still so much hate in this world. Will man ever learn from the past? Thanks, for such a touching video!
This is one of those things where I'm glad that it existed for those who truly needed it, but I'm also sad and angry that such things had to exist in the first place.
Its still a hostile time!
@Ken Baker what is a trouble maker?
The way things are we might have to get a new green boik going!
May everyone be educated!
I know where I come from very strong people, how kind my mom and dad were so were my grand parents having deal what they had to face made me be strong in my journey. that same kindness that was given to me by them is what I give. Kindness is a strength that says you will never take my humanity from me. that is something you can't take from me.
This sounds like today's news'
Bingo! Lots of comments here acting shocked when it is still happening today in America.
How the line “traveling while black” was not edited out.....that’s today’s slang. That was not the vernacular of that time, we know what it was. So stay true to the era.
That jumped out at me as well. When scripts focus on being relevant to the modern era rather than true to the times, it's a disservice.
I liked it! This movie is an artistic expression not a documentary. #WhileBlack is a connecting point to today's youth and others not aware of this story.
I remember years ago it sent a chill through me when my grandmother told me she remembered a sign in Aurora, IN that said "(N-WORD), DON'T LET THE SUN SET ON YOU IN THIS TOWN!"
@@lastlime3792 Your point is neither here nor there regarding the subject, but my grandmother, while she hated it, was used to hearing that word growing up, as were many of her generation. And for the record, she passed away at a time when most rappers could get radio airplay without their songs having to be edited because of the language.
@@lastlime3792 That's fine if that's your opinion, but we're digressing here. The n-word is not the subject of the video or my original post. It was about there being grave consequences years ago if you were black and you were, according to whites, in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Excellent video thanks for the uploading