Green, a 44-year-old black postal carrier ... (The 1941 edition above resides in the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.) Mail carriers, Ramsey explains, were ...

“He had a large leatherbound Road Atlas and a Green Book,” said Bates ... a local historian who studies the African American ...

The “Negro Motorist Green Book,” a guide for African Americans first published in 1936, was a valued resource at a time when travel held the promise of adventure but was also perilous.

When the trio set out on another tour later that year, Shirley hired a white driver, a gregarious Italian-American ... The Negro Motorist Green Book, a travel guide for African-Americans published ...

The most promising offer turns out to be the driver for African-American classical pianist ... their trek armed with "The Negro Motorist Green Book," a guide for safe travel through America's ...

African American travelers had good reason to worry ... it presented serious challenges for others. What is the Green Book? What purpose did it serve? New York Public Library The Negro Motorist ...

The most promising offer turns out to be the driver for African-American classical pianist ... their trek armed with "The Negro Motorist Green Book," a guide for safe travel through America's ...