GREENSBORO — Natalie Pass Miller loved her life in Atlanta working for the corporate sector. While on a visit back home in 2018, a casual conversation with her dad changed everything. Sam Pass, at one time a fire and safety specialist at Duke University, had spent the past two decades of his off time meticulously […]
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Honoring the ‘Green Book’: A life-saving travel guide for African Americans during segregation | WMCAction News 5
‘If you wandered into a place where African Americans are not welcome…you could end up actually being killed’
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Before the Green Book, These Resorts Offered Hidden Safe Havens for Black Americans | History.com
Black Americans could temporarily escape the Jim Crow laws at early vacation resorts that catered only to them.
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A Black Motorists’ Guide to Jim Crow America, Newly Relevant | The New York Times Style Magazine
The “Green Book,” a travel manual published between 1936 and 1967 — and now the premise of a film by the same name — feels as necessary as ever.
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How an Artist Learned About Freedom From ‘The Negro Motorist Green Book’ | The New York Times
“It’s like reading a fairy tale book. I see the names of beauty schools and men’s clubs and taverns, and I think, ‘What does that place look like?’”
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‘The Green Book of South Carolina’ – New York Amsterdam News
The South Carolina African-American Heritage Commission has recently launched an exciting new mobile travel guide, “The Green Book of South Carolina,” to help residents and visitors from all over the world navigate to the more than 300 African-American cultural sites across the state’s 46 counties.
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