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The Negro motorist green-book / Victor H. Green [editor].
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks GV1024 .N36 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Travel--United States.
- African Americans.
- Automobile travel--Guidebooks.
- Automobile travel.
- African Americans--Recreation.
- Restaurants--United States--Directories.
- Restaurants.
- Bars (Drinking establishments)--United States--Directories.
- Bars (Drinking establishments).
- Genre:
- Guidebooks.
- Directories.
- Physical Description:
- 48 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- 1940 facsimile edition.
- Other Title:
- Green book
- Place of Publication:
- [Minooka, Ill.?] : Snowball Publishing, [2017]
- Summary:
- "In the segregated US of the mid-twentieth century, African-American travelers could have a hard time finding towns where they were legally allowed to stay at night, and hotels, restaurants, and service stations willing to serve them. In 1936, Victor Hugo Green published the first annual volume of The Negro Motorist Green-Book, later renamed The Negro Travelers' Green Book. This facsimile of the 1940 edition brings you all the listings, articles, and advertisements aimed at the Black travelers trying to find their way across a country where they were so rarely welcome."--Publisher's description
- Local Notes:
- Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complimentary Collection
- ISBN:
- 9781684116560
- 1684116562
- 9781684116546
- 1684116546
- OCLC:
- 1083641386
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