The Negro Motorist Green Book

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06/22/2015 at 22:52 • Filed to: None

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Given the current backlash against racism happening in South Carolina I was going to do a short post on this book but then discovered Jalopnik already did a way better job than I could back in 2011: so here’s a repost.

I first learned about this book because I was too cheap to pay for WiFi at Atlanta’s airport during a connection and ended up reading articles on the website of the Jimmy Carter presidential library which was free to access!

As a child of the eighties who grew up in Europe I was aware of the racism and segregation that had existed in the USA; but that this book was still necessary a mere 50 years ago was mind blowing and drove home the sheer level of it.

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DISCUSSION (4)


Kinja'd!!! LongbowMkII > zipfuel
06/22/2015 at 23:04

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I’m guessing Ford didn't sponsor the Jewish travel guidebook.


Kinja'd!!! zipfuel > LongbowMkII
06/22/2015 at 23:23

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Some impressive straddling of both the right and wrong side of history there


Kinja'd!!! 505Turbeaux > LongbowMkII
06/23/2015 at 08:03

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...unless it was a trick


Kinja'd!!! NJAnon > zipfuel
06/25/2015 at 00:21

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It is mindblowing zipfuel. More mindblowing is that a black person will still get pulled over in 2015 if the car they purchased cost over $50,000.