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Dec 16, 2018 · This inspired-by-real-life story follows a tough, Italian-American bouncer from the Bronx hired to drive Don Shirley, a black world-class classical pianist, on his tour through the Jim Crow South...
Driving interstate distances to unfamiliar locales, black motorists ran into institutionalized racism in a number of pernicious forms, from hotels and restaurants that refused to accommodate them...
- Jacinda Townsend
On the tour, Shirley and Vallelonga used The Negro Motorist Green Book, a directory of businesses across the country that welcomed black travelers at a time when many places didn't.
Apr 8, 2020 · In this dispatch of The Green Book in Maryland blog series, we’ll learn about the Green Book sites in Frederick, Maryland. In 1936, New York City mail carrier, Victor Hugo Green, created The Negro Motorist Green Book.
Feb 25, 2019 · The Green Book was a travel guide that was first printed in 1936, in the era of segregation, listing restaurants, hotels, shops and gas stations that would serve African-Americans and that were...
Dec 3, 2021 · “The Color Line” was published in 1881 in The North American Review, the oldest literary magazine in the United States. The article was eleven pages in length and was presented as an informative text about how the color line came to be and why it was persistent in American society.
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Nov 29, 2015 · The first time The Green Book covered Alabama, for example, in 1938, it listed only three hotels in six cities; by 1957, it covered 13 hotels and motels in nine towns and cities in the state.
