freeman being the chauffeur just it handy in this case you have a white man doing the driving ok so i'm detecting a slight note of skepticism there but we do learn about the actual green book a kind of survival guide for black people traveling in the southern states at the time and so we went to the source to find out more about it. columbia south carolina the deep south musician reggie scott experienced firsthand the dangers that black travellers once faced in the region visitors from the north and familiar with the strict racial segregation laws in the south were especially at risk. always carry your own room you always nervous because you were you have to do anything to be stopped by the police they wouldn't consider harassing through us to just see us and stop starting in the one nine hundred forty scots ont and mother offered lodging in this house to travellers who were banned from staying at the hotels for whites only the address was listed in the green book named for its publisher victor greene and that was the only indication that the cornwell family's hotel even existed. oh

morgan freeman was the easy reader on the show. >> he and i were really, we were so close. we're 50-year-old friends already. >> jimmy: when did you start performing in front of people? and i'm not talking with a school play. how old were you when you started? >> not a school play. i always did the mexican hat dance every week and the kids said, oh, god. she has that hat on again. i guess i was about 15. i've been, i'm 87 now. >> jimmy: unbelievable! unbelievable! i'm sure people drive you crazy telling you how great you look all the time. >> i know. it is such a burden. >> jimmy: and this is "life" magazine from 1954. there you are on the cover. rita moreno. an actor's catalogue of sex and innocence. very racy for 1954. and wow, you are unbelievably beautiful. do you remember taking this photograph? >> of course i do. and i remember the man who produced the whole piece. there's about four pages inside. he said to me, we want you for the cover. after they took the pictures. he said but i warn you, if eisenhower catches cold, you're off the cover. because eisenhower was the