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The Jewish Vacation Guide, first published around 1916, helped Jewish travelers avoid dangerous antisemitism by recommending safe places to eat, sleep and obtain services.
Pegasus Theatre Chicago, in association with ShPIeL Performing Identity, announce the Chicago premiere of The Green Book, inspired by Victor Green's historical, The Negro Motorist Green Book ...
The film “Green Book,” starring Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen, is garnering a lot of Oscar buzz. The title is a reference to “The Negro Motorist Green Book,” a travel guide for ...
The Jewish Vacation Guide cataloged where Jews would be safe, well-fed and entertained. It also inspired the Green Book, a widely used guide for Black travelers.
CHICAGO — A new exhibit at the Illinois Holocaust Museum is based on a book that stood as a guide for ways for Black travelers to travel safely across the county during segregation. Noah ...
Mark E. Talisman, a leader, supporter and advocate of several Jewish organizations and causes as well as a founder of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, died July 11 at his home in ...
K. Patrick Yarbrough still has a copy of his family’s Green Book. “In the 60s, things had changed a great deal and then they hadn’t changed a great deal,” Yarbrough said. Stream NBC 5 for ...