His aunt and mother used the travel guide to plot the entire trip. 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. The pamphlet promoted vacation without humiliation.
Professor: "It gives us a history of what we might call 'driving while black'"Ītlanta (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 guide was started in 1936 by a Harlem mailman named Victor Green.
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