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The Green Book Mindset
How do you travel with dignity through a country whose laws say you are less than human? We start with the terror on the road: sundown towns, legally refused service, police hunting Black drivers — and families driving straight through the night on food packed at home. Then the answer: Victor Hugo Green, a Black mailman from Harlem, who built the Negro Motorist Green Book on nights and weekends starting in 1936. Black postal workers mailed him listings, travelers sent in their own, strangers opened their homes to strangers — and Esso stations, Black churches, and the Urban League put the book…
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