One of the reasons LovecraftCountry creator Misha Green was excited to do that show 'was uncovering all of these things that we have not been told when we center a narrative just around whiteness.”
, it “listed guest homes, hotels, motels, restaurants and other businesses that served Black visitors: important information at a time when many establishments were still segregated, Jim Crow laws were in effect in some states and sundown towns existed.”, the HBO series shows how its version was used by Black communities and was as necessary to have on them as suggested by the book’s tagline, “Carry yourwith you… you may need it.
While it’s largely perceived as a Southern movement, Green says the Jim Crow era encompassed all of America, which is why Atticus, George and Leti encounter racism during their road trip through New England states and even come across a sundown town in Massachusetts. “I feel like the fact that you say Jim Crow America and people say, ‘Oh, in the South,’ and I'm like, ‘Nope. This all takes place in the North.
On the show, Green wanted to depict the horrors of these places by having Atticus, Leti and George threatened by a white cop to leave before sunset. “I wanted to pick this kind of slow chase, the idea that you can't go over the speed limit, but you’ve got to get out of this town and away from these people,” she says.
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