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Comic Publisher Puts The Negro Motorist Green Book Back Into Print
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The Negro Motorist Green BookandThe Negro Travelers Green Bookare one of the most notable American guidebook series of the 20th century . Originally created by postal workerVictor H. Greenand publish in 1936 , they were intended as a guide for African - Americans travelling the country depend for safe places . It provided a guidebook to lieu , restaurants , service stations , hotels , motels , and diners that welcomed black visitors and town that did n’t have curfew for pitch-dark citizens in a time when that was often the exception .
The Green Booklisted the places you could move to , or travel through , without fearing for your life .
There has beenmuch media coverage of theGreen Bookrecently , including the Washington Post , CNN , PBS , and more . Even here in the UK , BBC Radio 4 ran a late documentary on the publishing , which I listened to with greatinterest .
But the book itself has n’t actually been usable for purchase . As civil rights laws transfer the nation , making such segregation illegal , the direct motive for the book lessened .
But , in a work of archival publication , a comic book publisherAbout Comics , which specialises in heritage revivals of draw a blank industrial plant from the likes ofCharles Schulz , Kurt Busiek , Bill Mumy , andGail Simone , is reprintingThe Green Bookin two facsimiles editions , one from 1940 and one from 1954 .
The Negro Motorist Green - Book : 1940 Facsimile Edition(ISBN : 1936404672 ) andThe Negro Travelers ' Green Book : 1954 Facsimile Edition(ISBN : 1936404664 ) are cover priced at $ 8.99 and in the main available through Amazon.com , with other electrical outlet to amount .
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