Day 1 – Black History Month- The Negro Travelers’ Green Book

Here’s a photo of an actual Green book.

The Negro Travelers Green Book or the classic Negro Motorist Guide was a travel guide published (1936-1967) during the segregation era in the United States that identified businesses that would accept/serve African Americans and other minority customers. Compiled by Victor Hugo Green (1892-1960), a Black postman who lived in the Harlem section of New York City, the Green Book listed a variety of businesses from restaurants and hotels to beauty salons and drugstores across the U.S. that were necessary to make travel comfortable (use a restroom) and safe (get a bite to eat) in the period known as Jim Crow – before passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964.