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Revisiting a Jim Crow-Era Guide for Traveling While Black

The New York Public Library “The White traveler has had no difficulty in getting accommodations, but with the Negro, it has been different.” So reads the foreword of a series of travel guides called Green Books, created to help black Americans travel safely through a segregated and often unsafe country during the years of Jim Crow.

 

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