Online Resources and Bibliography
This exhibition is based on the content from Overground Railroad: The Root of Black Trave in America by Candacy Taylor - New York: Abrams Books, 2020 http://www.taylormadeculture.com/the-green-book/
AUTOMOBILE
Brown, Warren. “Cadillac’s Cultural Turn.” Washington Post (Dec. 24, 1995).
Davis, Ed. One Man’s Way. Detroit, MI: Edward Davis Associates, 1979.
Driskell, Jay. An atlas of self-reliance: The Negro Motorist's Green Book (1937-1964) July 30, 2015
Sugrue, Thomas J. “Driving While Black: The Car and Race Relations in Modern America.” Automobile in American Life and Society (Jan. 6, 2009).
BLACK BUSINESSES
Ebony Magazine, Black Travel and Green Book site ads, June 1960.
Feldman, Brian S. “The Decline of Black Business .” Washington Monthly, May 1, 2017.
Jackson, James A. “Big Business Wants Negro Dollars.” The Crisis (Feb. 1935): 45.
Walker, Juliet E. K. Encyclopedia of African American Business History. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.
Walker, Juliet E. K. The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, and Entrepreneurship. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
MULTIMEDIA
The Dew Drop Inn, in New Orleans, was immortalized in a song by Little Richard.
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Listen to it here: Dew Drop Inn
Murray’s Dude Ranch in Victorville, CA, was the site where many Herb Jeffries movies were filmed. View footage from The Bronze Buckaroo and Harlem Rides the Range. The films can also be purchased at the following links: The Bronze Buckaroo and Harlem Rides the Range.
BLACK TRAVEL & LEISURE
Ortlepp, Anke. Jim Crow Terminals: The Desegregation of American Airports. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016.
Diggs, Rep. Charles C. Jr. Letter to the President of Continental Airlines, March 12, 1955,
Du Bois, W. E. B. Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil. New York: Dover, 1999.
Holland, Jearold Winston. Black Recreation: A Historical Perspective. Chicago: Burnham/Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.
Lauterbach, Preston. The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock ’n’ Roll. New York: W. W. Norton, 2010.
Milloy, Courtland. Black Highways: Thirty Years Ago We Didn't Dare Stop. Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, June 21, 1987
Rugh, Susan Sessions. Are We There Yet? The Golden Age of American Family Vacations. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008.
Shumaker, Susan. “Untold Stories from America’s National Parks: Segregation in the National Parks,” PDF PBS.org, 1:15–36,
Wolcott, V. W. Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
Yee, Amanda. “Celebrating the African-American Shoebox Lunch.” Paste (Feb. 21, 2017).
BLACK TRAVEL GUIDES
Go Guide to Pleasant Motoring. Washington, D.C.: Nationwide Hotel Association Inc.
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Hackley and Harrison’s Hotel and Apartment Guide for Colored Travelers: Board, Rooms, Garage Accommodations, etc. in 300 Cities in the United States and Canada. Philadelphia, PA: Hackley and Harrison Publishers, 1930.
GREEN BOOK SITES / STORIES /HISTORY
Cuddy, G. A. Where Hash Rules: The Love Story of Charlie’s Sandwich Shoppe in Boston. 2nd ed. Boston: CreateSpace Publishing, 2015.
Jenkins, Carol, and Elizabeth Gardner Hines. Black Titan: A. G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire. New York: Ballantine Books, 2004.
McGee, Celia “The Open Road Wasn’t Quite Open to All” New York Times, Aug. 22, 2010
Nazaryan, Alexander. “How the 'Green Book' Saved Black Lives on the Road” Newsweek,03/09/17
New York Amsterdam News. “Green Book Points Way to Travellers.” New York Amsterdam News (1954): 46, 276.
Parker, Nancy. “Marsalis Mansion Owner Leaves a Legacy of Giving.” Fox 8, Jan. 9, 2015.
Ramsey, Calvin Alexander. Ruth and the Green Book. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books, 2010.
Taylor, Candacy. “Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America,” New York: Abrams Books, 2020
Taylor, Candacy. “The Roots of Route 66” The Atlantic (Nov. 2016)
Taylor, Candacy TIME - The Remarkable Black Businesswomen Who Found Success in Segregated America, JANUARY 7, 2020
Wilson, Sondra K. Meet Me at the Theresa: The Story of Harlem’s Most Famous Hotel. New York: Atria Books, 2004.
MULTIMEDIA
Bronze Buckaroo- Black Western filmed at Murray’s Dude Ranch
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CBS SUNDAY MORNING, Traveling with "The Green Book" during the Jim Crow era
Dr. Gretchen Sorin and Ric Burns. Driving While Black. Released October 2020. Video. 2hrs. http://www.dwbfilm.com/.
Gravy. Mapping the Green Book: An Interview with Candacy Taylor – Podcast
Harlem Rides the Range – Black Western filmed at Murray’s Dude Ranch
Harvard University, W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute Colloquium Series featuring Candacy Taylor. April 19, 2017
KRCW. The Green Book’ mapped safe spaces for Black travelers. This documentarian visited 5,000 of them. Podcast
Mars, Roman. 99% Invisible Podcast – The Green Book
NPR – Talk of the Nation. 'Green Book' Helped African-Americans Travel Safely -September 15, 2010
NYPL, Green Book Digital Collection at Schomburg Center – New York Public Library
Ramsey, Calvin Alexander and Becky Wible Searles. The Green Book Chronicles. Website
SI Channel Documentary, Green Book Guide to Freedom. See the “Smithsonian Channel Screenings” document for information regarding how to request a screening of the Smithsonian Channel documentary at your venue.
MIGRATION / CLASS / SEGREGATION
Adero, Malaika, ed. Up South: Stories, Studies, and Letters of This Century’s Black Migrations. New York: The New Press, 1993.
Alderman, Derek, K. “Street Fit for a King.” Derek Alderman, Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Beth Tompkins Bates, Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America (1925- 1945)
Boehm, Lisa Krissoff. Making a Way out of No Way. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009.
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Jackson, Algernon Brashear. Jim and Mr. Eddy: A Dixie Motorlogue. Washington, D.C.: Associated Publishers Inc., 1930.
Lemann, Nicholas. The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America. New York: Vintage Books, 1992.
McWhorter, Diane. Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Robert K. Nelson, LaDale Winling, Richard Marciano, Nathan Connolly, et al., “Mapping Inequality,” American Panorama, ed. Robert K. Nelson and Edward L. Ayers, accessed October 13, 2020,
Romeyn, Kathryn. “L.A.’s Ugly Jim Crow History: When Beaches Were Segregated.” The Hollywood Reporter (Aug. 5, 2016).
The Schomburg Center Black Liberation Reading List, Spring 2020
Van Deusen, John George. The Black Man in White America. Washington, D.C.: Associated Publishers, 1938.
Vargas, Ryann Blackshere. “The City of Glendale is looking to the future by recognizing its past.” Spectrum News, Oct. 9, 2020
Wallace, Carvell “The Negro Motorist Green Book and Black America’s Perpetual Search For A Home.” June 29, 2016
Weyeneth, Robert R. “The Architecture of Racial Segregation: The Challenges of Preserving the Problematical Past.” Public Historian 27, no. 4 (2005): 11–44.
WGBH. “Jim Crow Laws.” Freedom Riders.
Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. New York: Random House, 2020.
Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns. New York: Vintage Books, 2011.
POLICY
Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, New. York: The New Press, 2012
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Anderson, Carol. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.
Bliss, Laura. “Mapping Chicago’s ‘Million Dollar Blocks’: The Costs of Incarceration Are Concentrated in Low-income, Predominantly Black Communities in the City.” CityLab, July 24, 2015.
Caro, Robert A. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. “The Case for Reparations.” The Atlantic 313.5 (2014): 54-71.
Massey, Douglas S., and Nancy A. Denton. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Rogers, Cleveland. “Robert Moses: An Atlantic Portrait.” The Atlantic (Feb. 1939).
Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. New York: W. W. Norton, 2017.
Sampson, Robert. Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Satter, Beryl. Family Properties: How the Struggle Over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America. New York: Picador, 2010.
Satter, Beryl. Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America. New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2009.
Stevenson, Bryan. Just Mercy. New York: Spiegel and Grau, 2015.
MULTIMEDIA
National Geographic. Mapping the Green Book, 2019
PRESERVATION / RACE & ARCHITECTURE
Dowdell, Kimberly. “Racism is built into US Cities,” Fast Company, June 2020
Golden, T. ed, Harlemworld: Metropolis as Metaphor (Studio Museum in Harlem, 2004)
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National Trust for Historic Preservation - Green Book Sites
Route 66 News. Land dispute may hold up restoration of Threatt Filling Station, March 14, 2018
RACIAL VIOLENCE
Equal Justice Initiative. Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror. 2nd ed. Montgomery, AL: Equal Justice Initiative, 2015.
Holman, Gregory J. “It’s Not a Boycott: NAACP Warns Nation About Traveling in Missouri.” Springfield News Leader (July 30, 2017).
Ifill, Sherrilyn A. On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty- first Century. Boston: Beacon Press, 2007.
Jones, Fred. “96 Years Later The Greenwood Cultural Center 1921 Race Riot Massacre Facts with Video.” National News, June 1, 2017
Loewen, James W. Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism. New York: New Press, 2005.
Loewen, James W. “Sundown Towns.” In Poverty & Race (newsletter). Poverty and Race Research Action Council, 14, no. 6 (Nov.–Dec. 2005): 1–2, 6.
Madigan, Tim. The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001.
MULTIMEDIA
Equal Justice Initiative (EJI)
ROUTE 66
National Park Service – Route 66 and the Historic Negro Motorist Green Book
MULTIMEDIA
Parks, Katrina. The Negro Motorist Green Book - Interview with Candacy Taylor
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