The data from The Negro Travelers' Green Book: Spring 1956 was provided by the Green Book map created by the SC Digital Academy and the Digital Collections and African American Studies departments of the University of South Carolina. The Scribe framework was then used to correct and normalize the data generated from the OCR processing. The NYPL Labs has extracted the text and coordinate data (via OCR) from the high-resolution images of The Negro Motorist Green Book: 1947. But until that time comes we shall continue to publish this information for your convenience each year.Īccording to legal research done by NYPL staff, those 21 volumes have no known US copyright restrictions, and can be used and reused freely. It will be a great day for us to suspend this publication for then we can go wherever we please, and without embarrassment. That is when we as a race will have equal opportunities and privileges in the United States. There will be a day sometime in the near future when this guide will not have to be published. green: noun a color whose hue is somewhat less yellow than that of growing fresh grass or of the emerald or is that of the part of the spectrum lying between blue and yellow. If not, tell us also as we appreciate your criticisms and ideas in the improvement of this guide from which you benefit. If this guide has proved useful to you on your trips, let us know. With the introduction of this travel guide in 1936, it has been our idea to give the Negro traveler information that will keep him from running into difficulties, embarrassments and to make his trips more enjoyable. The New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture has digitized 21 volumes of the Green Books from 1937 to 1964.įrom the Introduction to the 1949 edition:
Map A Trip With Green Books View Green Book Map The Collection See how the size of the world can change depending on the color of your skin. Think about the trips you could take, can take, will take.
We encourage you to explore these books map them in your mind. In an age of sundown towns, segregation, and lynching, the Green Book became an indispensable tool for safe navigation. (The actual titles were variously: The Negro Motorist Green Book The Negro Travelers' Green Book The Travelers' Green Book.) These listed hotels, restaurants, beauty salons, nightclubs, bars, gas stations, etc. Victor Green, The Negro Travelers' Green Book: Fall 1956įrom Schomburg Treasures: The Green Book by K Menick of Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture:įrom 1936 to 1966, Victor Green, a postal worker who worked in New Jersey but lived in Harlem, published the directories known today as the Green Book.
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