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Overground Railroad
- The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
- Narrado por: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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In this adventurous, original book, NPR correspondent Frank Langfitt describes how he created a free taxi service - offering rides in exchange for illuminating conversation - to go beyond the headlines and get to know a wide range of colorful, compelling characters representative of the new China. They include folks like "Beer", a slippery salesman who tries to sell Langfitt a used car; Rocky, a farm boy turned Shanghai lawyer; and Chen, who runs an underground Christian church and moves his family to America in search of a better, freer life.
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Too political
- De dah551 en 06-26-19
De: Frank Langfitt
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Stealing Home
- Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between
- De: Eric Nusbaum
- Narrado por: David Owen Nelson
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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Dodger Stadium is an American icon. But the story of how it came to be goes far beyond baseball. The hills that cradle the stadium were once home to three vibrant Mexican American communities. In the early 1950s, those communities were condemned to make way for a utopian public housing project. Then, in a remarkable turn, public housing in the city was defeated amidst a Red Scare conspiracy.
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Once Upon a Time at Dodger Stadium
- De James Gamble en 03-06-21
De: Eric Nusbaum
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Black Birds in the Sky
- The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
- De: Brandy Colbert
- Narrado por: Brandy Colbert, Kristyl Dawn Tift
- Duración: 5 h y 25 m
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In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a White mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District - a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed 35 square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial violence in US history. But how did it come to pass?
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Incredible story and sooo well written
- De Deby en 02-17-22
De: Brandy Colbert
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The World's Fastest Man
- The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America's First Black Sports Hero
- De: Michael Kranish
- Narrado por: David Sadzin
- Duración: 11 h y 48 m
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In the tradition of The Boys in the Boat and Seabiscuit, a fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking but forgotten figure - the remarkable Major Taylor, the Black man who broke racial barriers by becoming the world’s fastest and most famous bicyclist at the height of the Jim Crow era.
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before there was Jesse Owens and Jackie Robinson
- De Leo en 07-29-19
De: Michael Kranish
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Harlem
- The Four Hundred Year History from Dutch Village to Capital of Black America
- De: Jonathan Gill
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 19 h y 24 m
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Harlem is perhaps the most famous, iconic neighborhood in the United States. A bastion of freedom and the capital of black America, Harlem's 20th-century renaissance changed our arts, culture, and politics forever. But this is only one of the many chapters in a wonderfully rich and varied history. In Harlem, historian Jonathan Gill presents the first complete chronicle of this remarkable place.
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Very Interesting.
- De Joyce Mirowski en 06-05-20
De: Jonathan Gill
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Fulfillment
- Winning and Losing in One-Click America
- De: Alec MacGillis
- Narrado por: Danny Gavigan
- Duración: 12 h y 22 m
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Alec MacGillis’ Fulfillment is not another inside account or exposé of our most conspicuously dominant company. Rather, it is a literary investigation of the America that falls within that company’s growing shadow. As MacGillis shows, Amazon’s sprawling network of delivery hubs, data centers, and corporate campuses epitomizes a land where winner and loser cities and regions are drifting steadily apart, the civic fabric is unraveling, and work has become increasingly rudimentary and isolated.
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Missing some important angles
- De D. Zimmerle en 08-19-21
De: Alec MacGillis
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Wandering in Strange Lands
- A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
- De: Morgan Jerkins
- Narrado por: Morgan Jerkins
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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From the acclaimed cultural critic and New York Times best-selling author of This Will Be My Undoing - a writer whom Roxane Gay has hailed as “a force to be reckoned with” - comes this powerful story of her journey to understand her Northern and Southern roots, the Great Migration, and the displacement of black people across America.
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Not Just Black History -- It's All Of Our History
- De Ardee en 08-22-20
De: Morgan Jerkins
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Self Made
- Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
- De: A'Lelia Bundles
- Narrado por: A'Lelia Bundles
- Duración: 16 h y 23 m
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The daughter of slaves, Madam C.J. Walker was orphaned at seven, married at 14, and widowed at 20. She spent the better part of the next two decades laboring as a washerwoman for $1.50 a week. Then - with the discovery of a revolutionary hair care formula for Black women - everything changed. By her death in 1919, Walker managed to overcome astonishing odds: Building a storied beauty empire from the ground up that would be run by four generations of Walker women until its sale in 1985.
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Please read the book and not rely on the Netflix series
- De Sweet Pea's Mommy en 04-27-20
De: A'Lelia Bundles
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The Cubans
- Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times
- De: Anthony DePalma
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean, Anthony DePalma
- Duración: 12 h y 41 m
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Cubans today, most of whom have lived their entire lives under the Castro regime, are hesitantly embracing the future. In his new book, Anthony DePalma, a veteran reporter with years of experience in Cuba, focuses on a neighborhood across the harbor from Old Havana to dramatize the optimism as well as the enormous challenges that Cubans face: a moving snapshot of Cuba with all its contradictions as the new regime opens the gate to the capitalism that Fidel railed against for so long.
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The real Cuba
- De Tinkerbell en 10-11-20
De: Anthony DePalma
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The Vapors
- A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of Vice
- De: David Hill
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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Back in the days before Vegas was big, when the Mob was at its peak and neon lights were but a glimmer on the horizon, a little Southern town styled itself as a premier destination for the American leisure class. Hot Springs, Arkansas was home to healing waters, Art Deco splendor, and America's original national park - as well as horse racing, nearly a dozen illegal casinos, countless backrooms and brothels, and some of the country’s most bald-faced criminals.
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If you don’t live in Arkansas…
- De JohnFern0813 en 08-14-20
De: David Hill
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The Ground Breaking
- An American City and Its Search for Justice
- De: Scott Ellsworth
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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Over the course of less than 24 hours in the spring of 1921, Tulsa’s infamous “Black Wall Street” was wiped off the map - and erased from the history books. Official records were disappeared, researchers were threatened, and the worst single incident of racial violence in American history was kept hidden for more than 50 years. But there were some secrets that would not die. A riveting and essential new book, The Ground Breaking not only tells the long-suppressed story of the notorious Tulsa race massacre.
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excellent
- De BoxerBran en 09-29-22
De: Scott Ellsworth
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Afropean
- Notes from Black Europe
- De: Johny Pitts
- Narrado por: Johny Pitts
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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In the face of growing racial discrimination, anti-immigrant sentiment and the spectre of terrorism looming large over an economically stricken continent, Afropean is an on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African descent are juggling their multiple allegiances and forging new identities: too indelibly woven into Europe to identify with Africa and yet struggling with outdated ideas of what it means to be European.
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Excellent
- De Suzie M en 04-04-24
De: Johny Pitts
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The Dead Are Arising
- The Life of Malcolm X
- De: Les Payne, Tamara Payne
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 18 h y 6 m
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An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative.
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Much more depth than the Haley book.
- De CapitalHeel en 11-03-20
De: Les Payne, y otros
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Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black Southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race and crime in American society. Chronicling the emergence of deeply embedded notions of black people as a dangerous race of criminals by explicit contrast to working-class whites and European immigrants, this fascinating book reveals the influence such ideas have had on urban development and social policies.
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What J. D. Vance did for Appalachia with Hillbilly Elegy, CNN analyst and one of the youngest state representatives in South Carolina history Bakari Sellers does for the rural South, in this important book that illuminates the lives of America’s forgotten Black working-class men and women. Part memoir, part historical and cultural analysis, My Vanishing Country is an eye-opening journey through the South's past, present, and future.
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What America Needs NOW!!!
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Be Free or Die
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It was a mild May morning in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1862, the second year of the Civil War, when a 23-year-old slave named Robert Smalls did the unthinkable and boldly seized a Confederate steamer. With his wife and two young children hidden on board, Smalls and a small crew ran a gauntlet of heavily armed fortifications in Charleston Harbor and delivered the valuable vessel and the massive guns it carried to nearby Union forces.
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Sundown Towns
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Invisible
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Stephen L. Carter delves into his past and retrieves the inspiring story of his grandmother’s life. She was Black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in New York of the 1930s - and without the strategy she devised, Lucky Luciano, the most powerful Mafia boss in history, would never have been convicted. When special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey selected 20 lawyers to help him clean up the city’s underworld, she was the only member of his team who was not a white male.
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What J. D. Vance did for Appalachia with Hillbilly Elegy, CNN analyst and one of the youngest state representatives in South Carolina history Bakari Sellers does for the rural South, in this important book that illuminates the lives of America’s forgotten Black working-class men and women. Part memoir, part historical and cultural analysis, My Vanishing Country is an eye-opening journey through the South's past, present, and future.
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Be Free or Die
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The Underground Railroad Records
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As a conductor for the Underground Railroad - the covert resistance network created to aid and protect slaves seeking freedom - William Still helped as many as 800 people escape enslavement. He also meticulously collected the letters, biographical sketches, arrival memos, and ransom notes of the escapees. The Underground Railroad Records is an archive of primary documents that trace the narrative arc of the greatest, most successful campaign of civil disobedience in American history.
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This cultural biography tells the enthralling story of the high-achieving Black elites who thrived in the nation's capital during Reconstruction. Daniel Murray (1851-1925), an assistant librarian at the Library of Congress, was a prominent member of this glorious class. Murray's life was reflective of those who were well-off at the time. This social circle included African American educators, ministers, lawyers, doctors, entrepreneurs, US senators and representatives, and other government officials.
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Negroland
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At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac - here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of Margo Jefferson's rarefied upbringing and education among a Black elite concerned with distancing itself from Whites and the Black generality while tirelessly measuring itself against both.
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ARE YOU BLACK ENOUGH
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- De: Harriet Jacobs
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Harriet Jacobs’ autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to freedom in the north, and her ensuing struggles to free her children. The narrative was partly serialized in the New York Tribune, but was discontinued because Jacobs’ depictions of the sexual abuse of female slaves were considered too shocking. It was published in book form in 1861.
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Another impossible narration
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Medical Apartheid
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Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge - a tradition that continues today within some black populations.
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Sobering... but necessary.
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The Devil's Half Acre
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New York Times best-selling author Kristen Green draws on years of research to tell the extraordinary and little-known story of young Mary Lumpkin, an enslaved woman who blazed a path of liberation for thousands. She was forced to have the children of a brutal slave trader and live on the premises of his slave jail, known as the “Devil’s Half Acre”. When she inherited the jail after the death of her slaveholder, she transformed it into “God’s Half Acre”, a school where Black men could fulfill their dreams.
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Stop the Presses!
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- De: Robert Goldsborough
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There are few people Nero Wolfe respects, and Lon Cohen of the New York Gazette is one of them. So when Cohen asks for a favor, the famously brilliant - and notoriously lazy - detective is inclined to listen. According to Cohen, someone wants to kill the Gazette’s gossip columnist, Cameron Clay. Death threats are a regular hazard for Clay, who’s hurled insults and accusations at every boldfaced name in the five boroughs. But the latest threats have carried a more sinister tone.
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Not the best, but enjoyable
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Overground Railroad (The Young Adult Adaptation)
- The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
- De: Candacy Taylor
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Overground Railroad chronicles the history of the Green Book, which was published from 1936 to 1966. For years, it was dangerous for African Americans to travel in the United States. Because of segregation, Black travelers couldn't eat, sleep, or even get gas at most white-owned businesses. The Green Book listed hotels, restaurants, stores, gas stations, and other businesses that were safe for Black travelers. It took courage to be listed in it, and the stories from those who took a stand against racial segregation are recorded and celebrated.
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The Three Mothers
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Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them. In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and shaped some of America's most pivotal heroes.
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Not what I hoped for
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Barracoon
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- De: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
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In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview 86-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage 50 years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States. In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile.
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Slavery by Another Name
- The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
- De: Douglas A. Blackmon
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
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In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an Age of Neoslavery that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II.
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Steel Yourself
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The Black Holocaust for Beginners
- De: S.E. Anderson
- Narrado por: Bill Andrew Quinn
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Virtually anyone, anywhere knows that six million Jewish human beings were killed in the Jewish Holocaust. But how many African human beings were killed in the Black Holocaust - from the start of the European slave trade (c. 1500) to the Civil War (1865)? And how many were enslaved? The Black Holocaust, a travesty that killed millions of African human beings, is the most underreported major event in world history.
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Eye opener
- De Linda J. Taibi en 02-27-23
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- Alise Moss Vetica
- 10-14-21
So much History Revealed
With ever chapter read, new, unknown history was revealed. Even with such great inequities, systemic racism, and Jim Crow laws, Blacks proved yet again their determination to overcome and be free, and the Green Book helped them to safely navigate those dangerous travel barriers.
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- edith
- 11-21-20
A must listen to
The Overground Railroad is the best book I have ever listen to sense I had become an audible member this book has so many valuable lessons and so much exciting history the narrator did a wonderful job and now reading this book I was so blown away by this book before listening to the book in its entirety I went and purchase the book as well to put in my library. The Overground Railroad is a must read or listen to you will not be disappointed.
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- Kevlar314
- 11-12-20
Overall good
Enjoyed this book but: there is a strange amount of repetition in it. Also some oversimplification of legal principles and the narrator's perky voice is a bit much for me. I've heard other books she has narrated and found the same thing. She is talented no doubt--just a personal preference for me. I do recommend this book especially for people unaware of history or the current state of things.
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- Ronnie B
- 02-19-24
The narrator’s voice
I loved this book, it taught me things that we did not learn in high school.
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- Kittykat
- 12-25-20
Must Read! For younger generations.
This is a must read for younger generations, than those who lived through it. As a 1980s baby white and suburban in a small town I had no idea. I wasnt raised to hate or see people different. I had little understanding from school or college about these issues and times. I cannot believe what happened and this is just a small sample Im sure. And what the repercussions of it are today. Author does get political, more in the beginning than the end (or she converted me more by the end through education). If you disagree with her politically, get past your differences and keep going, its worth it.
Ive started looking at the world through different eyes. Seeing things, such as TV shows I grew up with, with a different perspective. I still see the enjoyable show but also the undercurrents of prejudice there now that I missed before.
Read this and share with others. In traditional Green Book fashion.
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- M. ODELL
- 03-02-21
It Makes it Real
The author has covered in depth how deeply rooted racism has woven itself around daily life and the striving toward normalcy of those in Black America who in early/mid 1900s wanted to simply take a vacation from time to time, using The Green Book as their "AAA" guide. It illuminated how the Green Book allowed them to get away from home for a "vacation", but not from the evils of racism in America. The book highlights the challenge of getting a loan to buy a car, buying a car, getting insured, having to avoid towns that banned Blacks after 6pm, getting a hotel room, using restroom, filling up the gas tank, getting a meal. It shows the many daily tasks white people take for granted, and yet, much hasn't changed. It is still dangerous for Blacks to travel. It highlights how while slavery is not legal, the the evil of racism has adapted to further put a stranglehold on Blacks via mass incarceration, the business implications of integration on Black-owned businesses, the difficulty of housing, and the persistent racial and socio-economic segregation. The "what we do next" part at the end provided actionable steps.
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- Germile Davis
- 10-24-23
Great Book, worth the read. Entertaining . Rare .
Learned alot of new history i did not know before. Enjoyed this a lot. Rarely told history getting its day to be heard.
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- Rachel Kass
- 07-03-21
Oscar of books
You want to learn something you want to learn something amazing you want to read this book it teaches you so much of the green book it’s so much more than that she has a way to teach you history the hard parts and the celebrations in such a way that it makes you want to learn more and educate others
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- purpleprose
- 10-16-22
Narrator destroyed this for me! read it instead
I grew up knowing the Green Book, so I was eager to get this book. But the narrator is appalling! Her histrionic preachy style is SOOO condescending and boring, as if she's reading to first graders who may not follow or get the point. I'd hoped it was only for the prologue but nope, it seems to be the same in the body of the book. I'm returning this and will avoid the narrator (but not the author). What a shame. The Green Book was an important part of our lives
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