Ebook {Epub PDF} Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin Alexander Ramsey

The Green Book: The Black Travelers’ Guide to Jim Crow America. For nearly 30 years, a guide called the Negro Motorist Green Book provided African Americans. The Negro Motorist Green Book comes to the rescue, listing resources for black motorists in every state, and Ruth and her family make their way from safe haven to safe haven until they reach Alabama. Cooper masterfully captures the emotions of the characters, filling his pages with three-dimensional www.doorway.ru by: 4. "The playwright and author Calvin Alexander Ramsey, 65, was raised in the South and now lives in New York City. He is the author of “Ruth and the Green Book,” a children’s book published in , and the play “The Green Book,” first produced in and published last year in book form.

Calvin's book "Ruth and the Green Book" is featured among 10 children's books that help white kids understand what children of color are up against. "Calvin Alexander Ramsey's book Ruth and the Green Book unveils the unfortunate treatment of blacks through the eyes of young Ruth who travels with her family from Chicago to Alabama. Calvin Alexander Ramsey chronicles the history of the Green Book. Calvin Alexander Ramsey had never heard of the Green Book growing up. But in , Ramsey, an author and playwright, was attending a funeral in Atlanta when an elderly man approached him to ask where he could get the book, a long out-of-print travel guide for "Negro motorists" in the Jim Crow era. As an award-winning Atlanta book author and playwright, Calvin Alexander Ramsey concentrates on what he calls "unknown pages in African American history". In fact, Ramsey's first work, titles The Green Book, is based on the guidebook discussed in Ruth and the Green Book, and performed in

The Negro Motorist Green Book comes to the rescue, listing resources for black motorists in. Calvin Alexander Ramsey. Calvin Alexander Ramsey is a playwright, photographer, and painter. He adapted one of his plays for print as Ruth and the Green Book, illustrated by Floyd Cooper. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia. The Negro Motorist Green Book comes to the rescue, listing resources for black motorists in every state, and Ruth and her family make their way from safe haven to safe haven until they reach Alabama. Cooper masterfully captures the emotions of the characters, filling his pages with three-dimensional individuals.