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Then, the Negro Motorist Green Book arrived. The book was a travel guide published from 1936 through the 1960s by New York City mailman Victor Hugo Green. It listed businesses including stays that ...
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The Negro Motorist Green Book was a must-have for Black travelers during the Jim Crow era and some Cincinnati businesses contributed to it. The Green Book was published and ...
“ Triumph in the Trenches (Volume 2): The Green Book for Black Professionals ” is a comforting new book of essays that will offer support to readers who may not realize the impact of the stresses they ...
The title is a reference to The Negro Motorist Green Book, a travel guide for African-Americans published from 1936 to 1967 that promised “vacation without aggravation.” Making the film more ...
“The Negro Motorist Green Book” is an exhibition developed by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) (https://negromotoristgreenbook.si.edu/) in collaboration with ...
A state historic preservation project aims to identify and document properties in Michigan that were once listed in Negro Motorist Green Books. Those guides helped African Americans avoid racial ...
The Negro Motorist Green-Book, in 1937. The 15-page directory covered Green’s home turf, the New York metropolitan area, listing establishments that welcomed blacks. The power of the guide ...
That was the simple goal stated by Victor H. Green, the creator of The Negro Motorist Green Book (today commonly called The Green Book). He launched the publication in 1936, a time of segregation ...
Although hardly enthused at working for a Black man, Tony accepts the job and they begin their trek armed with "The Negro Motorist Green Book," a guide for safe travel through America's racial ...
Victor Hugo Green, the creator of the Green Book, was born in New York City in 1892. He moved to Harlem in 1933 and began managing Robert Duke, his brother-in-law and a touring musician ...