

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The Overground Railroad Green Book Tour
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 17 Dec, 2022 at 10:00 am – Sat, 17 Dec, 2022 at 02:00 pm
- **Event Description**: The Negro Motorist Green Book was created and published by an African-American New York City mailman, Victor Hugo Green from 1936 to 1966.About this EventThe Negro Motorist Green Book (also The Negro Motorist Green-Book, The Negro Travelers' Green Book, or simply the Green Book) was an annual guidebook for African-American roadtrippers. It was originated and published by African-American New York City mailman Victor Hugo Green from 1936 to 1966, during the era of Jim Crow laws, when open and often legally prescribed discrimination against African Americans especially and other non-whites was widespread. Although pervasive racial discrimination and poverty limited black car ownership, the emerging African-American middle class bought automobiles as soon as they could, but faced a variety of dangers and inconveniences along the road, from refusal of food and lodging to arbitrary arrest. In response, Green wrote his guide to services and places relatively friendly to African-Americans, eventually expanding its coverage from the New York area to much of North America, as well as founding a travel agency.Many black Americans took to driving, in part to avoid segregation on public transportation. As the writer George Schuyler put it in 1930, "all Negroes who can do so purchase an automobile as soon as possible in order to be free of discomfort, discrimination, segregation and insult".[1] Black Americans employed as athletes, entertainers, and salesmen also traveled frequently for work purposes using automobiles that they owned personally.African-American travelers faced hardships such as white-owned businesses refusing to serve them or repair their vehicles, being refused accommodation or food by white-owned hotels, and threats of physical violence and forcible expulsion from whites-only "sundown towns". Green founded and published the Green Book to avoid such problems, compiling resources "to give the Negro traveler information that will keep him from running into difficulties, embarrassments and to make his trip more enjoyable".[2] The maker of a 2019 documentary film about the book offered this summary: "Everyone I was interviewing talked about the community that the Green Book created: a kind of parallel universe that was created by the book and this kind of secret road map that the Green Book outlined".[3]From a New York-focused first edition published in 1936, Green expanded the work to cover much of North America, including most of the United States and parts of Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Bermuda. The Green Book became "the bible of black travel during Jim Crow",[4] enabling black travelers to find lodgings, businesses, and gas stations that would serve them along the road. It was little known outside the African-American community. Shortly after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed the types of racial discrimination that had made the Green Book necessary, publication ceased and it fell into obscurity. There has been a revived interest in it in the early 21st century in connection with studies of black travel during the Jim Crow era.Four issues (1940, 1947, 1954, and 1963) have been republished in facsimile (as of December 2017), and have sold well.[5] Twenty-three additional issues have now been digitized by the New York Public Library Digital Collections.[6https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b33PN2NB2Dohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS49Co-Y-kk
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- **Event Categories**: workshops, art, literary-art, entertainment
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## Ticket Details

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- **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 15, currency: USD

## Event venue details

- **city**: Dallas
- **state**: TX
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 1408 N Washington Ave
- **lat**: 32.7961145
- **long**: -96.78331329999999
- **full address**: 1408 N Washington Ave, 1408 North Washington Avenue, Dallas, United States

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- **organizer**: Remembering Black Dallas, INC. (https://allevents.in/org/remembering-black-dallas-inc/9206625)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 17 Dec, 2022 at 10:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 1408 N Washington Ave, 1408 North Washington Avenue, Dallas, United States
- **Q**: What is the ticket price?
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- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Remembering Black Dallas, INC.
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** workshops, art, literary-art, entertainment
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about The Overground Railroad Green Book Tour ?
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