Item Detail
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31565
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2
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8
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English
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Utah in the Green Book : Segregation and the Hospitality Industry in the Beehive State
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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2020
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88
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1
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Illinois Press
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39-57
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"In February 2019, Green Book won the Academy Award for Best Picture. The film follows the travels of pianist Don Shirley on a concert tour through the Midwest and South before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made segregation illegal. Its title refers to The Negro Motorist Green Book, a tour guide designed to list safe places for African Americans to eat, spend the night, and find other amenities when traveling across the United States when many establishments throughout the nation were “white only.” 1 Victor Hugo Green, a postal employee from Harlem, published the Green Book under his own imprint from 1936 until his death in 1960, with a short gap during World War II; his wife, Alma Green, continued as editor after Victor’s death. 2 Green collected listings of hotels, restaurants, gas stations, and other businesses that catered to African Americans, and he encouraged readers to submit recommendations for locations to be included in the guide : in early editions, the author suggested, 'There are thousands of places that the public doesn’t know about and aren’t listed. Perhaps you might know of some? If so send in their names and addresses and the kind of business, so that we might pass it along to the rest of your fellow Motorists.”' [Author]
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