When The Negro Motorist Green Book was first published in 1936, it was a slim pamphlet listing those hotels, restaurants, garages, and other businesses in New York City where black travelers could be sure of good service and equitable treatment. this was not the case at every establishment; the new York of the day could be as discriminatory, even as dangerous, as the segregated south. But the guide’s publisher, Victor H. green, was an experienced provider of safe, reliable transit. He was a letter carrier for the postal service...
