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The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

A sundown townvaries in definition But not in function

Murray bishoff: A sundown town
varies in definition But not in function

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Murray bishoff: A sundown town varies in definition
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But not in function.
Duration
7 seconds
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43
Timestamp in Movie
00:07:01
Uploaded
Jun 11, 2025
Genres
documentary, history
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A deeper look into the real story of Victor H. Green's "The Negro Motorist Green Book" during the Jim Crow era and beyond.
It is a place where african americans - The Green Book: Guide to Freedom 00:14
It is a place where african americans
If you were in that town at a particular time, - The Green Book: Guide to Freedom 00:07
If you were in that town at a particular time,
You could actually be lynched. - The Green Book: Guide to Freedom 00:04
You could actually be lynched.
Bishoff: There are many instances - The Green Book: Guide to Freedom 00:09
Bishoff: There are many instances
A woman would see an african american man - The Green Book: Guide to Freedom 00:05
A woman would see an african american man
His presence was enough to spark this kind of hysteria. - The Green Book: Guide to Freedom 00:06
His presence was enough to spark this kind of hysteria.
Candacy taylor: There were thousands of sundown towns - The Green Book: Guide to Freedom 00:04
Candacy taylor: There were thousands of sundown towns
A lot of them would have a sign. - The Green Book: Guide to Freedom 00:04
A lot of them would have a sign.
There were others that, you know, - The Green Book: Guide to Freedom 00:10
There were others that, you know,
Sundown towns were largely a northern, midwestern, - The Green Book: Guide to Freedom 00:06
Sundown towns were largely a northern, midwestern,
The state of illinois - The Green Book: Guide to Freedom 00:04
The state of illinois
Narrator: The state of missouri alone is alleged to have had - The Green Book: Guide to Freedom 00:07
Narrator: The state of missouri alone is alleged to have had
One of the most notorious was pierce city, - The Green Book: Guide to Freedom 00:08
One of the most notorious was pierce city,
It also was the oldest of the major towns - The Green Book: Guide to Freedom 00:11
It also was the oldest of the major towns
The town had a significant population of african americans - The Green Book: Guide to Freedom 00:11
The town had a significant population of african americans
Narrator: In August of 1901, a white woman was murdered. - The Green Book: Guide to Freedom 00:05
Narrator: In August of 1901, a white woman was murdered.
Within hours, a black man named will godley was accused - The Green Book: Guide to Freedom 00:06
Within hours, a black man named will godley was accused
Bishoff: Throughout the day, the tensions have been growing. - The Green Book: Guide to Freedom 00:07
Bishoff: Throughout the day, the tensions have been growing.
The mob congeals. They drag out will godley. - The Green Book: Guide to Freedom 00:05
The mob congeals. They drag out will godley.
They drag him back from that corner, - The Green Book: Guide to Freedom 00:06
They drag him back from that corner,