The Negro Motorist Green Book | Yr. 1949 Edition

The Negro Motorist Green Book | Yr. 1949 Edition

African American Guide Book
African American International Travel Guide
Discrimination in public accommodations
Hotels
Bars (Drinking establishments)
Taverns (Inns)
Restaurants
African Americans
United States
New York (N.Y.)
Alaska
Bermuda
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Canada

The Negro Motorist Green Book (at times styled The Negro Motorist Green-Book or titled The Negro Travelers' Green Book) was an annual guidebook for African-American roadtrippers, commonly referred to simply as the Green Book. It was originated and published by New York City mailman Victor Hugo Green from 1936 to 1966, during the era of Jim Crow laws, when open and often legally prescribed discrimination against non-whites was widespread. Credit: Wikipedia

Victor Hugo Green

Public domain digitized copies (1937-1963/64) of the Green Book (via New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)

Victor H. Green & Company

Edition Published: 1949

Alston, Wendell P. (1949).

Public Domain

Edition 1949, Housed in the Henry Ford Collection

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English

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Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 9ea5d5b0-1117-0132-7932-58d385a7b928

Print Archives:
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division
National Museum of History and African American C ulture