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MURFREESBORO– The inaugural Created Equal: TN Legacy Series film screening and discussion will feature the film Green Book, a 2018 biographical drama set in the 1960s, and the documentary Freedom Riders, which chronicled efforts to desegregate public accommodations throughout the South in the 1960s.In partnership with the MTSU Intercultural and Diversity Affairs Center and the Washington Family Foundation, Murfreesboro Parks and Recreation Department...

Black History Month will take place in February and a special discussion will be held along with the presentation of two different documentaries in Murfreesboro. One of the documentary films will focus on what was called the Green Book.Margaret McKinley explains what the Green Book meant to African Americans in the 1930's and into the 1960's…The Green Book was published from 1936 to 1966 by an African-American New York City mailman by the name of Victor Hugo Green.Leroy Cunn...