The Green Book was founded by Victor Hugo Green, a New York City postal worker. It was published annually from 1936 to 1966. Jim Crow laws during this period made it difficult for a Black motoris to be safe while traveling. Discrimination was accepted and legal at the time. The Green Book was to help provide information to counteract this effect. It provided information on where to stay in several diffent home, especially New York and Los Angeles. The exhibit also documents discrimination as well as the civil rights movement, and safe places for the Black traveler.
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| The result of racial discrimination |
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| beach trip |
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| racism |
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| Muhammed Ali and Malcolm X |
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| Martin Luther King |
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| struggle for Civil Rights |
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| Omaha |
