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The Green Book

99% Invisible

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The Impact and Significance of the Green Book

This chapter explores the importance of the Green Book, a travel guide that provided African American tourists with information on safe places to stay and visit during the era of segregation. It discusses how the Green Book changed travel for black people and its eventual obsolescence after the passage of the Civil Rights Act.

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