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Jun 10, 2024 · The Green Book, travel guide published (1936–67) during the segregation era in the U.S. that identified businesses that would accept Black customers. Compiled by Victor Hugo Green, a Black postman, it helped make travel comfortable and safe for African Americans in the period before the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Feb 6, 2017 · The Green Book, first published in 1936, was the brainchild of a Harlem-based postal carrier named Victor Hugo Green who, like most Africans Americans in the mid-20th century, had grown weary...
Feb 22, 2019 · A new documentary, The Green Book: Guide to Freedom, looks at how the historic travel guide helped black motorists. From the 1930s to 1960s, black drivers used Victor Green’s Negro...
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The Green-Book was indispensable to black-owned businesses. For historians, says Smithsonian curator Joanne Hyppolite, the listings offer a record of the “rise of the black middle class,...
- Jacinda Townsend
The Negro Motorist Green Book was one of the best known of the African American travel guides. It was conceived in 1932 and first published in 1936 by Victor Hugo Green, a World War I veteran from New York City who worked as a mail carrier and later as a travel agent.
Until its demise in 1967 (five years after Victor Green's death), The Green Book remained true to its goals. Green himself believed that the passing and implementation of the landmark...
Feb 21, 2021 · For Black travelers driving across segregated America in the '40s, '50s and '60s, the Negro Motorist Green Book was more than a travel aid – it was a guide for keeping them safe. The...
