In the 1930's Victor H. Green started publishing an African-American go withdraw (first published equally 'The Negro Motorist Green Book' too afterwards equally 'The Negro Travelers' Green Book'). In the guides Green reviewed hotels too restaurants which welcomed Black customers during the fourth dimension of Jim Crow laws too racial segregation.
Back inwards 2013 the University of South Carolina created an interactive Green Book Map which visualized over 1,500 listings from the Spring 1956 Green Book. Unfortunately the University of South Carolina's interactive Green Book Map has suffered the Google Maps API osculation of expire too forthwith all the map tiles are stamped alongside unsightly 'For evolution purposes only' warnings. However at that spot is no ask to worry equally y'all tin peruse the novel NYPL Navigating the Green Book road planner instead.
Navigating the Green Book allows y'all to innovation a road anywhere inwards the USA too discovery hotels, restaurants too bars which were welcoming to African Americans during the times of segregation. The map attempts to exhibit a eating theater every 250 miles too a lodging every 750 miles. You tin read to a greater extent than nigh the map, the Green Book too the New York Public Libraries attempts to map the entries inwards the Green Book at the NYPL Digital Collections.
