![]() ![]() By its final year, the Green Book covered all 50 states and some foreign destinations. history and how African Americans tried to avoid racism on the road. The guides reveal part of 20 th-century U.S. Recently, the colleagues turned to UVA’s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities and architectural historian Louis Nelson, UVA’s vice provost for academic outreach, to land a 2021 “flash grant” from the Jefferson Trust to help create “ The Architecture of The Green Book: A Digital Database.” The site provides information about the establishments listed under Virginia, Maryland and Rhode Island, the states they have fully researched so far. They kept in touch professionally and started exploring Green Book locations soon after they were digitized. Susan Hellman, Anne Bruder and Catherine Zipf first met in UVA’s School of Architecture when they were pursuing master’s degrees in architectural history, graduating in 1996 or ’97. The guidebooks, titled “The Negro Traveler’s Green Book” after Victor Hugo Green, a New York postal carrier who first created them, were published annually from 1936 to ’66 and listed safe places for traveling Black Americans to stay all across the country, not just the South. ![]() Years before the 2018 film “Green Book” became an Oscar winner, bringing back into the public eye the namesake travel guide that listed safe places for African Americans, three University of Virginia alumnae had already begun collaborating on a project to research the places listed in those pages.
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