Reference note

Summary: An annual guidebook for African-American roadtrippers founded and published by New York City mailman Victor Hugo Green from 1936 to 1967. From a New York-focused first edition published in 1936, Green expanded the work to cover much of North America. The Green Book became "the bible of black travel" during the era of Jim Crow laws, when open and often legally prescribed discrimination against African Americans and other non-whites was widespread. Green wrote this guide to identify services and places relatively friendly to African-Americans so they could find lodgings, businesses, and gas stations that would serve them along the road. It was little known outside the African-American community. Shortly after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed the types of racial discrimination that made the Green Book necessary, publication ceased and it fell into obscurity.
Created / Published: New York City : V.H. Green,
Subject Headings: -  African Americans--Travel--United States--Guidebooks
-  Automobile travel--United States--Guidebooks
-  Hotels--United States--Directories
-  Tourist camps, hostels, etc--United States--Directories
-  Bars (Drinking establishments)--United States--Directories
-  Restaurants--United States--Directories
-  African Americans--Travel
-  Automobile travel
-  Bars (Drinking establishments)
-  Hotels
-  Restaurants
-  Tourist camps, hostels, etc
-  United States
Genre: Directories
Guidebooks
Notes: -  Began with 1936. Ceased with 1951.
-  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
-  1942 ed.; title from cover.
-  Negro travelers' green book (OCoLC)15668758
Digital Id: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcscd.00212275098
http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/9ea5d5b0-1117-0132-7932-58d385a7b928 External