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The Green Book: A Historic Travel Guide for Black America, Part I

The Green Book: A Historic Travel Guide for Black America, Part I

Between 1936 and 1964, the Negro Motorist Green Book was essential for the survival of thousands of Black Americans in an era of segregation, cemented into the American legal system through Jim Crow laws, sundown tows where African Americans were under threat of violence after sunset, and a sharp increase in lynchings and other forms […]

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