Back in 1936, during the most racially restrictive period of segregation in the United States, a Harlem man named Victor Hugo Green began publishing a slim, pocket-sized travel guide for black Americans. Green, a postal worker by trade, had observed the nation's burgeoning car culture and surmised that some black people with the means to own an automobile would want to get out on the open road and travel the nation. But given the capricious and life-threatening nature of Jim Crow laws, Green reasoned that a black motorist would need to know in advance where it was permissible for them to stop for food, fuel, or overnight accommodations....
https://thinkprogress.org/the-return-of-the-negro-motorist-green-book-d3c71a07e99e/
https://thinkprogress.org/the-return-of-the-negro-motorist-green-book-d3c71a07e99e/
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