#green book

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Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role:

Thank you, Tony. But not everyone can play Chopin. Not like I can.

Mahershala Ali as Dr. Donald Shirley in Green Book (2018, dir. Peter Farrelly)

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Newly digitized: the 1949 edition of the Green Book, created as a guide for African American travelers in the Jim Crow era.

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Houghton Library, Harvard University

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Charlie's Place was a supper club on the Chitlin' Circuit where Black people could perform in the segregated South from the 1930s to the 1950s. Next door to the club was the family home of owners Sarah and Charlie Fitzgerald and a small motel they named Fitzgerald Motel.

The club was demolished in the 1960s but somehow the motel survived. It remained unoccupied through the 2000s and by 2015, was boarded up and put up for sale.

In 2016, a portion of the then-abandoned motel was demolished and the remaining rooms were renovated and restored. They now house a museum and a community center. The site also hosts numerous festivals and events, including a three-day jazz festival.

Located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Source

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Photo: @FromCassandra)

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The Jewish press has long published information about places that are restricted [to them]... -The Negro Motorist's Green Book, 1949

in case anyone denies antisemitism was very much a very big thing in american history, you can always pull this quote out. of course it was around well before and persists to this day but I find this a good one because it's such an offhanded, matter-of-fact, comment. Of course they have. What else would they do?

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Viggo Mortensen as Tony Lip / Green Book (2018)

Academy Award Nominated as Best Actor

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