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.
A man that is a stranger, is an incredibly easy man to hate. However, walking in a stranger’s shoes, even for a short while, can transform a perceived adversary into an ally. Power is found in coming to know our neighbor’s hearts. For in the darkness of ignorance, enemies are made and wars are waged, but in the light of understanding, family extends beyond blood lines and legacies of hatred crumble.
Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Common in Jim Crow South, few women spoke up in fear for their lives. Not Recy Taylor, who bravely identified her rapists. The NAACP sent its chief rape investigator Rosa Parks, who rallied support and triggered an unprecedented outcry for justice. The film exposes a legacy of physical abuse of black women and reveals Rosa Parks’ intimate role in Recy Taylor’s story.
AN OUTRAGE is a documentary film about lynching in the American South. Filmed on-location at lynching sites in six states and bolstered by the memories and perspectives of descendants, community activists, and scholars, this unusual historical documentary seeks to educate even as it serves as a hub for action to remember and reflect upon a long-hidden past.
马丁·路德·金（Martin Luther King, Jr.，1929年1月15日—1968年4月4日），着名的美国民权运动领袖，1964年度诺贝尔和平奖获得者。
1929年1月29日 马丁路德·金出生于美国格鲁吉亚州的亚特兰大，他的父亲是一个教会牧师。1948年马丁·路德·金获得莫尔豪斯大学学士学位，1951年他又获得柯罗泽神学院学士学位，1955年他从波士顿大学获得神学博士学位。
1954 年 马丁路德·金成为阿拉巴马州蒙哥马里的德克斯特大街浸信会教堂（Dexter Avenue Baptist Church）的一位牧师。1955年12月1日，一位名叫做罗沙·帕克斯的黑人妇女在公共汽车上拒绝给白人让座位，因而被当地员警逮捕。马丁路德·金立即组织了一场罢车运动（即蒙哥马里罢车运动），从此他成为民权运动的领袖人物。1964年马丁路德·金被授予诺贝尔和平奖。1968年4月4日，他在演讲时被一名刺客开枪打死。
1986年1月，总统罗纳德·里根签署法令，规定每年一月份的第三个星期一为美国的马丁路德·金纪念日，以纪念这位伟人。
他的妻子是科丽塔·斯科特·金。
The Cold War and Civil Rights collide in this remarkable story of music, diplomacy and race. Beginning in 1955, when America asked its greatest jazz artists to travel the world as cultural ambassadors, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington and their mixed-race band members, faced a painful dilemma: how could they represent a country that still practiced Jim Crow segregation?