Description: About this item2019 Reprint of 1938 Edition. First Volume of this scarce Automobile Guide from African Americans. The Negro Motorist Green Book was an annual guidebook for African American road trippers. It was originated and published by African American mailman Victor Hugo Green from 1936 to 1966, during the era of Jim Crow laws, when open and often legally prescribed discrimination against African Americans especially and other non-whites was widespread. Although pervasive racial discrimination and poverty limited black car ownership, the emerging African American middle class bought automobiles as soon as they could, though they faced a variety of dangers and inconveniences along the road, from refusal of food and lodging to arbitrary arrest. In response, Green wrote his guide to services and places relatively friendly to African Americans, eventually expanding its coverage from the New York area to much of North America, as well as founding a travel agency. Many Black Americans took to driving, in part to avoid segregation on public transportation. As the writer George Schuyler put it in 1930, "all Negroes who can do so purchase an automobile as soon as possible in order to be free of discomfort, discrimination, segregation and insult." Black Americans employed as athletes, entertainers, and salesmen also traveled frequently for work purposes. Shortly after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed the types of racial discrimination that had made the Green Book necessary, publication ceased, and it fell into obscurity. There has been a revived interest in it in the early 21st century in connection with studies of black travel during the Jim Crow era.
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Package Dimensions LxWxH: 9.13x6.06x0.28 Inches
Book Title: Negro Motorist Green-Book : 1949 Facsimile Edition
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Item Length: 9.2 in
Department: Green-Book
Item Condition: New
Format: Trade Paperback
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Language: English
Formulation: 1949 Facsimile Edition
Item Height: 0.2 in
Topic: United States / 20th Century, African American
Item Width: 6.1 in
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Publisher: Martino FINE Books
Weight: 0.31 Pounds
Brand: Book
Publication Year: 2020
Type: The Negro Motorist Green-Book
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Illustrator: Yes
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Author: Victor H. Green
Genre: History
Item Weight: 5.1 Oz
Number of Pages: 88 Pages
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