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A carregar... Going Places: Victor Hugo Green and His Glorious Bookpor Tonya Bolden
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"As a mail carrier, Victor Hugo Green traveled across New Jersey every day. But with Jim Crow laws enforcing segregation since the late 1800s, traveling as a Black person in the US could be stressful, even dangerous. So in the 1930s, Victor created a guide--The Negro Motorist Green-Book--compiling information on where to go and what places to avoid so that Black travelers could have a safe and pleasant time. While the Green Book started out small, over the years it became an expansive, invaluable resource for Black people throughout the country--all in the hopes that one day such a guide would no longer be needed"--Provided by publisher. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Green was a New York City mail carrier who was able to gather such information from all the people he encountered on his daily route. He decided to compile lists of places that were welcoming to Black Americans. His first guide was ten pages and related only to the New York area. People began calling Victor and begging that he expand his pamphlet to cover other states, so Victor wrote letters to other Black postal workers all over the country for the names and addresses of places that welcomed Black customers.
Two years later, The Green Book had more than doubled in size, and by 1940 it was 48 pages and listed places in big cities all over the country. It also began to cover more than friendly places to lodge and dine. As the author reports:
“It listed welcoming places to get a new hairdo or a tailored suit, places to get an oil change or a tire fixed, places for tapping feet and snapping fingers to some beats.”
By 1946 it listed some 3,500 places welcoming to Blacks throughout the country.
Victor Green retired in 1953, after which he availed himself of the guide to travel himself around the country. Bolden writes: ; “As much as Victor Hugo Green loved his book, he yearned for the day when it would no longer be needed…”
He died in 1960, but four years later, on July 2, 1964, the Civil Rights Bill, making race discrimination illegal, was passed. (In the Introduction to the 1949 book, Green wrote, "There will be a day sometime in the near future when this guide will not have to be published. It will be a great day for us to suspend this publication . . .")
The book ends with an Author’s Note, timeline, footnotes, and selected sources.
Illustrator Eric Velasquez employs his signature painterly art work and cleverly intersperses collage images to give many pages the feel of a travelogue journal or scrapbook.
Recommended for ages 4 and over. ( )