‘Life or death for black travelers’: How fear led to ‘The Negro Motorist Green-Book’
By DeNeen L. Brown June 1 The guidebook for African American travelers was published from 1936 to 1964 by Victor H. Green. (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/New York Public Library) In the 1930s, the freedom of the open road beckoned, but for African Americans traveling in the Jim Crow era, highways could be […]