![]() Taylor encourages Americans to map the sites, preserve them, and give surrounding communities ownership over their reconstruction. That’s why she has made it her work to catalogue every remaining one. history, says historian and artist Candacy Taylor. The guide was published for the final time in 1966, and of the 224 original Green Book sites in Los Angeles, only about 8 percent still stand, mostly due to neglect and gentrification.ĭocumenting those sites is essential to recasting U.S. A guide to thousands of safe havens nationwide for people of color, from barbershops to ballrooms, the book was brought to the mainstream this year with the divisive film Green Book, winner of three Golden Globe awards and the best picture Oscar. What he published was the Negro Motorist Green Book. In 1936, a postal worker named Victor Green set out to create a guide that would help black travelers drive the “Road of Dreams” safely, and as he put it at the time, “ without embarrassment.” It was dotted by racist signs and Sundown towns, cities like suburban Glendale that warned blacks to “leave town by sundown.” ![]() For African Americans, Route 66, the iconic cross-country highway, was dangerous. In Jim Crow-era America, the open road was not open to all. ![]()
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