![]() Like the main character in the movie, a classical pianist on tour in the South, black travelers couldn’t have a meal, get a good night’s sleep or fill up their gas tank at most white-owned businesses. Viewers of the Oscar-winning film “ Green Book” might assume they have a sense of what it was like to travel as an African-American in this country during the many decades that Jim Crow laws and racist practices flourished. OVERGROUND RAILROAD The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America By Candacy TaylorĭRIVING WHILE BLACK African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights By Gretchen Sorin ![]()
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