Green Book

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  4/6/2023
  

  Can Virginia Preserve the Sites of "Green Book" Travel from the Jim Crow Era?

  A new law in Virginia would declare the sites promoted as safe and welcoming for Black travelers in a widely-circulated travel guide from the segregation era to be historic and worthy of protection against development. 

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• SOURCE: National History Center and Woodrow Wilson Center
  9/17/2021
  

  Traveling Black: Mia Bay Joins the Washington History Seminar, September 20

  Mia Bay's new book "places the right to unrestricted mobility at the center of the twentieth-century black freedom struggle." She addresses the Washington History Seminar on Monday, September 20 at 4:00 EDT. 

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  2/19/2021
  

  A Look Inside the Green Book, Which Guided Black Travelers Through a Segregated and Hostile America

  UCLA historian Scot Brown calls the "Green Book" a "Black GPS" for the Jim Crow era in an overview of the publication that helped African Americans exercise the freedom to travel. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/25/19
  

  The Green Book’s Black History

  by Brent Staples

  Lessons from the Jim Crow-era travel guide for African-American elites.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  2-11-18
  

  From the Green Book to Facebook, how black people still need to outwit racists in rural America

  A historical travel guide once listed safe pit stops for black motorists in Jim Crow America. When a family sought similar advice on Facebook last year, they were deluged with replies.