Even with his limited education (reportedly dropped out of school in the sixth grade), he quietly appears to be more tolerant than most, especially his friends and family. Tony is Italian-American, born and raised in the Bronx. The Green Book is handed to him to navigate through the south to Shirley’s record studio. He hires a not necessarily fast-talker, but a tough one named Tony Vallelonga (Viggo Mortenson), who needs the money to support his wife (Linda Cardellini) and two boys at home after being laid off for a couple of months from his bouncer gig at the Copa. He will be driving and interviews a man who can offer the kind of safe passage so he can come back unharmed or at the very least alive. There won’t be a plane for him to fly in. Don Shirley ( Moonlight’s Maherhala Ali) was about to begin an eight-week concert tour from New York City through the deep and very segregated South. In 1962, world-renowned and African-American pianist Dr. By the time Jim Crow laws were outlawed in 1964 by the Civil Rights Act, the Green Book slowly disappeared into obscurity one would think it still might be needed today. This was a necessary help for non-white travelers who faced “sundown” hours, where you had to leave the area by nightfall to continue segregating people of color.

The Negro Motorist Green Book, or more commonly just known as Green Book, was developed by a New York City postal worker named Victor Hugo Green, so the emerging African-American middle class could take their newly-bought automobiles and travel the country when Jim Crow laws were still practiced widely across the South. Green Book is not for the cold-hearted cynic, but for the romantic moviegoer who wants nothing more to see the good in people and let that feeling wash over them.

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