In the 1930's Victor H. Green started publishing an African-American move direct (first published equally 'The Negro Motorist Green Book' as well as subsequently equally 'The Negro Travelers' Green Book'). In the guides Green reviewed hotels as well as restaurants that allowed African Americans during the fourth dimension of Jim Crow laws as well as racial segregation inwards the United States.
The University of South Carolina has created a Green Book Map that shows all the locations as well as businesses listed inwards the guides that "were locatable to inside some a half-mile radius". Entries on the map tin endure searched past times name, place or past times type of business. The entries tin equally good endure filtered past times state.