According to the Green Book Cleveland entry, the Johnsons intended to invest $250,000 – equivalent to more than $2.4 million today – to create a resort and camp for underprivileged Black youth.

My husband bought an old wall phone and hung the Green Book on it. I expressed to him how uncomfortable this makes me, but he insisted on hanging it in the sitting room.

The volume’s proper title was, “The Negro Motorist Green Book,” and it advised travelers where they could expect to be welcomed and safe on their journeys across the country.

(Jan. 21, 2025) On her dining room table, next to a handful of Green Book reprints, sat an album, filled with photographs of nearly half of the Michigan sites that Byron has collected over the years.

The Green Book was important to average Black Americans and celebrities alike, including Duke Ellington, Aretha Franklin, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

WHAT TO KNOW The "Green Book," published between the 1930s and 1960s, was a popular travel guide used by Black travelers to avoid racism in their journeys. Long Island has dozens of sites in the ...

A fence divided the beach from adjacent Buckroe Beach, which was whites-only when segregation was in effect. The hotel was listed in the Green Book from 1947-58, and again from 1962-64 and 1966-67.

”The Green Book was a travel guide African Americans used and took in their cars with them when they traveled across the country to tell them where they could find lodging, where they could find ...