The famous Negro Motorist Green Book is one of the best shorthand examples of America’s continued institutional white supremacy even into the Civil Rights era. The Holocaust Museum is hosting an incredible exhibit dedicated to both the book’s history and Black American travel from the Great Depression to the Swingin’...
The famous Negro Motorist Green Book is one of the best shorthand examples of America’s continued institutional white supremacy even into the Civil Rights era. The Holocaust Museum is hosting an incredible exhibit dedicated to both the book’s history and Black American travel from the Great Depression to the Swingin’ ‘60s.
In spite of that danger, Black Americans wanted to move around. The ones who had moved north to Michigan, New York, and Illinois still had family in the south they wanted to see. Navigating through conflicting levels of violence and segregation required knowledge. The Green Book provided that. The weight of racism is felt throughout the exhibit, but the experience is far more about Black joy and entrepreneurship. The Ku Klux Klan is mentioned several times, but they appear in only one photographed tucked away in a corner. Even that is blurrier than the rest of the photos on display, turning them into little more than meaning ghosts.
Texas, sadly, is mostly left out of the Green Book story. As the borderline western state, we represented a frontier the Green Book often failed to cross. A single panel near the entrance lists some of the Houston businesses that made it into the Green Book, including Ralston Drugs, now a liquor store still run by the family today.
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