@pml

Thank you for your very interesting review. Little did I know that they even had "whites only" streets and grocery stores in Mississippi as late as the sixties!

What amazes me and scares me, is that many so-called reasonable people - in our time -seriously have suggested taking part of this history out of children's history books pretending ugly things never took place in this country.

Your book made me think of a beautiful film called: "The green book".
In it, the two main characters are an extremely talented black musician and an Italian immigrant to the United States. The movie is based on a true story. It shows us how two very different kinds of human beings can develop warm and lasting relationships. - And how this friendship between them is evolving and grows over the course of the years and how it lasts until the end of their lives.

It starts with the fact that the Italian guy needs a job, and the musician needs somebody to work for him – who can take care of his business, become his manager, assist him, and drive him around during his many concerts in the South.

The film is also an authentic description of all the terrible treatment this black musician gets (he is a famous musician, but I just can’t recall his name right now) gets from the whites who, on the one hand, come to his concerts to enjoy his music, but on the other, they discriminate terribly against him because he is black.

It is a well-played movie, and also a very sad, intense, and amazing (to me) piece of American history. In addition, it is an important but also funny, and encouraging contribution to breaking down prejudice and contrasting injustice.