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The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
The essential travel guide for a segregated America
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In 1936, Victor H. Green (1892-1960) published The Negro Motorist Green Book, a book that was both a travel guide and a survival manual, to help African-Americans navigate safe those regions of the United States where segregation and Jim Crow laws were disgracefully applied.
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- The Business of Fancydancing - Similar themes of Native American culture and identity.
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- Rise of the Planet of the Apes - Though primarily a sci-fi, it tackles themes of power and the struggles of a non-human monarch.
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