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Historical sites from a book that guided safe travel for Black Americans will be represented through a network of markers around Virginia, and also a website that will launch later this year.
While most of the businesses listed were located in major cities, the Green Book also held information on how to safely travel through smaller towns. In locations where businesses were hostile to ...
It was also a frequently advertised entity published in Victor Hugo Green's "Green Book," the safe traveling motorist guide for African Americans in the mid-1900's. According to Green Book ...
Bay Shore was popular enough that it was added to the Green Book, a travel guide Black families used in the early-to-mid 20th century to find friendly businesses and locations while driving ...
Initiated by Victor Green in 1936, the book started with about 15 pages and expanded to include locations in every state before going international a decade later. Candacy Taylor, an author and ...
LANSING, MI -- Michigan is surveying historic locations included in the Negro Motorist Green Book. The Green Book was a guide book for Black travelers across the nation published from 1936 to 1966.
It was one of hundreds of locations featured in The Negro Motorist Green Book, a guide for travelers that charted a working list of hotels, restaurants and other establishments that accepted Black ...
In this nation's era of racial segregation and hate crimes, Green Book locations were vital for the survival of thousands of Black Americans. Colorado is using a $75,000 grant to search for and ...
Podcast: Uncovering Green Book locations in New England Emily Sweeney, a Boston Globe reporter, has documented and mapped more than 350 spots in this part of the country.
NINA MOINI: During the era of Jim Crow laws and racial segregation, 87 locations in Minnesota were listed in the Green Book, a guidebook that helped Black travelers find lodging, businesses ...
It remains one of the few Green Book locations in Boston that is still in business. The tour starts at the Union United Methodist Church at 485 Columbus Ave. in Boston at 11 a.m., and tickets can ...