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Book

The Negro motorist green book compendium : a compilation of four volumes of the classic Jim Crow-era travel guide for African Americans covering all four decades during which the series was published from the 1930s to the 1960s

Call Number

  • 973.0496 N392.1 (CEN, POW)

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Publication Information

Camarillo, California : About Comics, [2019]

Physical Description

309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Summary

You've heard the tales, you've watched the movie, but have you actually seen... The Green Book? For decades, the safest way for African Americans to navigate a segregated US was to rely on The Negro Motorist Green Book, an annual guide listing hotels, restaurants, and other businesses that would serve the Black customer. The few remaining copies are museum pieces... but now you can see the contents of four volumes from across the guide's thirty year history. See all the articles, all the ads, and all the listings of this key part of American travel history.

Notes

Reprint. Contains material originally published by Victor H. Green in 1938, 1947, 1954, and 1963.

Includes publisher's (About Comics) advertisements at end of book.

"Continous printing starting January, 2019"

Subjects

Added Authors

Nat Gertler