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Overground Railroad: The Green Book & Roots of Black Travel in America (original 2020; edição 2020)

por Candacy Taylor

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The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for black motorists. Published from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was hailed as the "black travel guide to America." At that time, it was very dangerous and difficult for African-Americans to travel because black travelers couldn't eat, sleep, or buy gas at most white-owned businesses. The Green Book listed hotels, restaurants, gas stations, and other businesses that were safe for black travelers. It was a resourceful and innovative solution to a horrific problem. It took courage to be listed in the Green Book, and 'Overground Railroad' celebrates the stories of those who put their names in the book and stood up against segregation. It shows the history of the Green Book, how we arrived at our present historical moment, and how far we still have to go when it comes to race relations in America.… (mais)
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Título:Overground Railroad: The Green Book & Roots of Black Travel in America
Autores:Candacy Taylor
Informação:New York, NY : Abrams Books, 2020.
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Etiquetas:Harlem, Harlem History, Harlem 1930's, Black Motor Travel, Accommodation, Jim Crow, Segregation, Ida & Lee, FMF Project, ToniM Project

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Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America por Candacy Taylor (2020)

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A wealth of information about traveling in the United States during the Jim Crow era and the challenges that African Americans faced when they traveled as chronicled by The Green Book. As a youngster I remembered seeing the Green Book someplace during my travels. My father took our family on many trips and the one thing that I remember is that we did not see many people of African American descent on our travels. I did not understand the challenges that they were facing. This book provides a snap shot of those times and illustrates the problem that people of color face today while traveling.

I really enjoyed reading this book, especially for some of the stories that were in it and the fact that it showed the challenges that black travelers faced. I personally think that the book could have used a good final editing; however, it does not decrease the value as a historical document. ( )
  BobVTReader | Jan 28, 2022 |
This is not just about road tripping while black. It’s an examination of our country’s approach to civil liberties and the rampant racist highways that have been paved through our political systems and subconscious.

Every reader will learn something new here, it might be one or two things for some or it might be a new fact every few minutes for others, how exciting!
  BookSnug | Aug 19, 2021 |
There are things we don't know, but can learn. Just as there are things we can learn, but never really know. This book travels a familiar road unrecognizable to many of us. Fascinating, heart-breaking, disturbing and hopeful. Not an academic volume, but full of revelation. ( )
  Lemeritus | Dec 16, 2020 |
I thought I knew the story of the Green Book, but from the beginning I knew I did not know that much. It never occurred to me why Blacks in the 1930’and 1940’s chose to drive at night. Nor did I know how the automobile industry helped Blacks find work. Taylor’s trip across America to find the ruminates of what was presented in the Green book was heartbreaking in the discovery than less than 5% of the businesses are still in operation. I listened to the audiobook, which was good, but because of the accompanying photographs and drawings, I would prefer this book in print. I do not even recommend Kindle. ( )
  brangwinn | Sep 29, 2020 |
4.5/5 stars

WOW!
The power of sharing personal true stories rings through time and time again with Taylor’s tribute to the Green Book and those Black individuals, couples, and families who traveled the “Overground Railroad” - powerful primary source documents and photographs are juxtaposed amid poignant prose.

Quotes of Note:
“History doesn’t repeat itself. Humans do.” - Jelani Cobb

Langston Hughes poem, “Beaumont to Detroit: 1943”

“I don’t care if you’re the pope or the president...You have to eat. And I can cook for you...If I can get the people on both sides [of the political spectrum] to just sit down at my table, I think we can work this out.” Leah Chase, owner & chef, Dookey Chase’s, New Orleans, Louisiana

My next read in relation to this book will be Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, which has been on my TBR list. ( )
  Lisa_Francine | Aug 5, 2020 |
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Taylor creates a vivid, multi-voiced travelogue, drawing on interviews, archival documents and newspaper accounts. Historic photographs provide context. Her contemporary images drawn from her travels — landscapes of boarded-up or graffiti-laced wastelands, empty vistas where sites once stood — also play a dynamic, before-and-after role in storytelling.
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After scouting more than 3,600 Green Book sites, I realized that most of my well-meaning liberal friends in the coastal cities had never seen the poverty that millions of Americans are living in. By the time I got to Detroit, after leaving Los Angeles and driving across the country, I was in tears.
The sites that are still with us symbolize survival: They endured the times the pendulum swung forward and a wrecking ball swung back. These businesses survived urban renewal, gentrification, and white supremacist policies. And the people in these communities survived underfunded schools and overfunded prisons. All of this cemented my faith that we would survive Trump.
Driving too slowly, however, could also attract attention, so to avoid getting pulled over, most black men at the time learned to drive a mile or two under the speed limit. A slower car in front could pose yet another problem for black motorists in Jim Crow states, where it was illegal for a black driver to pass a white driver.
Black Americans who went to mainstream banks for auto financing were generally denied loans, but even after World War II, the roughly 3 percent of black men who received bank credit were often charged higher interest rates than white customers. Moreover, black men living in the South needed a white man to cosign for a loan. (Women of any race were denied credit without a male cosigner until well into the 1970s.)
In 1930, a few years before Cadillac opened its showroom doors to African Americans, journalist George Schuyler addressed this issue, saying that “Blacks who drove expensive cars offended white sensibilities, and some blacks kept to older models so as not to give the dangerous impression of being above themselves.”
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The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for black motorists. Published from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was hailed as the "black travel guide to America." At that time, it was very dangerous and difficult for African-Americans to travel because black travelers couldn't eat, sleep, or buy gas at most white-owned businesses. The Green Book listed hotels, restaurants, gas stations, and other businesses that were safe for black travelers. It was a resourceful and innovative solution to a horrific problem. It took courage to be listed in the Green Book, and 'Overground Railroad' celebrates the stories of those who put their names in the book and stood up against segregation. It shows the history of the Green Book, how we arrived at our present historical moment, and how far we still have to go when it comes to race relations in America.

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