The Green Book listed businesses in over 300 cities in the U.S. and Canada where Black customers were welcome. While most of the businesses listed were located in major cities, the Green Book also ...

listing businesses where black motorists were welcome. He called it The Negro Motorist Green Book. It was published annually, from 1936 until 1966. At first just listing restaurants, lodgings ...

The Green Book – named after its creator ... if Black people were welcome in the venue at all. Green used nights and weekends to work on the guide and kept his job at the Postal Service ...

They use 'The Green Book' to navigate. That book cataloged where a black person was welcome to stop to eat or sleep -- it also let blacks know where they weren't welcome. The Green Book was real ...

(WAVY) — Imagine a period of time in our history where a class of people carried a book to find businesses that would welcome them ... as “The Negro Motorist Green-Book.” ...

The power of the guide, says Ramsey, also the author of a children’s book and a play focused on Green-Book history, was that it “created a safety net. If a person could travel by car—and ...

But its famed leader and pianist, Don Shirley, who was black, knew his welcome was conditional ... who has turned their journey into Green Book, a new film garnering Oscar buzz.

NINA MOINI: During the era of Jim Crow laws and racial segregation, 87 locations in Minnesota were listed in the Green Book, a guidebook that helped Black travelers find lodging, businesses ...

It was a home away from home for people not welcome in other places, a place featured in Green Books used by Black families, including Ward’s, who shared her story on the floor of the Virginia ...