Green Book
Segregation-era directory
Green Book refers to several distinct publications.
The Negro Motorist Green Book (1936–1966) was a travel guide listing businesses that would serve Black Americans during the Jim Crow era, helping them avoid discrimination and danger while traveling: We used the Green Book to find safe lodging.
In British government, a Green Book is a policy document or set of guidelines, particularly HM Treasury's guidance on project appraisal.
The term also names the 2018 film dramatizing a Black pianist's tour through the segregated South.
- sundown townsSegregated communities expelling minorities nightly
- segregationForced separation by group
- film adaptationMovie from prior source
- Oscar winnerFilm award recipient
- travel safetyProtecting oneself while journeying
safe passage · travel guide · hotel guide · gas station · safe havens · Deep South · diner · civil rights movement · motel · leader · dictator · map · racial discrimination · societal impact · educational resource · motorist · Libyan · colonel
- Road MoviesEasy Rider, Thelma and Louise, National Lampoon's Vacation, Rain Man, Dumb and Dumber
- Oscar WinnersTitanic, Forrest Gump, The Godfather, Gladiator, Schindler's List
- Political TextsThe Communist Manifesto, Communist Manifesto, Leviathan, The Prince, The Social Contract
- central bank publicationsannual report, quarterly report, bulletin, minutes, policy statement
- Gaddafi LibyaMuammar Gaddafi, Tripoli, Benghazi, cult of personality, personality cult
- Tibetan exileexile community, Dalai Lama, Dharamshala, self-immolation
Green BookKu Klux Klan
White supremacist hate organization
George Wallace · lynch mob · Plessy v. Ferguson · white flight