Travel guide helped African-Americans navigate tricky times

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Just saw this over on http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/02/24/green.book.black.history/index.html?hpt=Sbin">CNN

Atlanta (CNN) -- Ernest Green hit the roads of the segregated South as a teen in the 1950s, using a travel guide that pointed out safe havens where African-Americans could eat and stay.

The pamphlet promoted vacation without humiliation.

On that trip in the 1950s, Green journeyed the 1,000 miles from Arkansas to Virginia with his mother, aunt and brother to attend his sister's college graduation. His aunt and mother used the travel guide to plot the entire trip.

"It was one of the survival tools of segregated life," Green says.

[Macoy51]

1. cool

I would love to read a copy of this. What a fascinating insight it would be in to our not distant past.


Macoy

[Iwillnevergiveup]

2. Enthusiastic book rec

Pulitzer Prize winner:

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Absolutely fantastic read.:hi:

[Blue_Tires]

3. thanks for this...