Overground Railroad
The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
New York : Abrams Press, 2020, ©2020.
Format: Book
Description: 360 pages : illustrations (some color), color map, facsimiles, portraits ; 25 cm
The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for black motorists.
Contents:
Introduction: Are we there yet? -- Driving while black -- The business of the Green Book -- The fight -- A license to leave -- All aboard -- Vacation -- Music venues -- The roots of Route 66 -- Women and the Green Book -- A change is gonna come -- Integration and the double-edged sword of progress -- Epilogue: America after the Green Book -- Author's note -- What we can do -- Green Book site tour -- Green Book cover guide -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Credits -- Index.
Subjects:
Automobile travel -- United States -- Guidebooks -- History.
African Americans -- Segregation -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Travel -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
African American automobile drivers -- History -- 20th century.
Automobile travel -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Segregation in transportation -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Race relations -- History.
United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Automobile travel -- United States -- Guidebooks -- History.
African Americans -- Segregation -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Travel -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
African American automobile drivers -- History -- 20th century.
Automobile travel -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Segregation in transportation -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Race relations -- History.
United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781419738173
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HISTORY North Am. US AF AM Tay | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
HISTORY North Am. US AF AM Tay | Sandhills Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-353) and index.
South Carolina Young Adult Book Award Nominee.
South Carolina Young Adult Book Award Nominee.