By Morgan Hines Green Book inspires new generation of Black travel guides, podcasts
At a time when the simple act of traveling through the United States often put Black people in physical danger, “The Negro Motorist Green Book” was an essential guide to safe spaces.
Published by Victor Hugo Green annually from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book helped Black travelers in the Jim Crow period find hotels, restaurants, gas stations and other businesses that would serve them.
Today, a new generation of authors are illuminating the heritage with new books and a podcast decades after Green s annual guide stopped publishing. The Green Book enabled African Americans to travel with dignity and find safe harbors during a period in U.S. history when the vast majority of white-owned businesses, even in large urban areas, were not welcoming, even hostile, to Black patrons.
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