Green Books

Armstead, Myra. B. Y. “Revisiting Hotels and Other Lodgings: American Tourist Spaces Through the Lens of Black Pleasure-travelers, 1880-1950.” The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, 25 (2015): 136-159.

Bay, Mia. “Traveling Black/Buying Black: Retail and Roadside Accommodation during the Segregation Era.” In Race and Retail: Consumption Across the Color Line, edited by Mia Bay and Ann Fabian, 15-33. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2015.

Belasco, Warren James. 1997. Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-1945. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Berish, Andrew S. Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and ‘40s. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Burrows, John H. The Necessity of Myth: A History of the National Negro Business League, 1900-1945. Auburn, AL: Hickory Hill Press, 1988.

Driskell, Jay. “An Atlas of Self-Reliance: The Negro Motorist’s Green Book (1937-1964),” Smithsonian, July 30, 2015. https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/negro-motorists-green-book.

Fletcher, Patsy Mose. Historically African American Leisure Destinations Around Washington, D.C. Charleston: History Press, 2015.

Foote, Kenneth E. “Editing Memory and Automobility & Race: Two Learning Activities on Contested Heritage and Place.” Southeastern Geographer 52, no. 4 (2012): 384-397.

Foster, Mark S. “In the Face of ‘Jim Crow’: Prosperous Blacks and Vacations, Travel, and Outdoor Leisure, 1890–1945”. Journal of Negro History 84, no. 2 (1999): 130–49.

Franz, Kathleen. “‘The Open Road’: Automobility and Racial Uplift in the Interwar Years.” In Technology and the African-American experience, edited by D. Miller, 131-54. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004.

Franz, Kathleen. “African-Americans Take to the Open Road.” In Major Problems in American Popular Culture, edited by Kathleen Franz and Susan Smulyan. New York: Centgage Publishing, 2011.

Gilroy, Paul. “Driving While Black.” In Car Cultures, edited by D. Miller, 81-104. New York: Berg Press, 2001.

Hall, Michael R. “The Negro Traveller’s Guide to a Jim Crow South: Negotiating Racialized Landscapes During a Dark Period in United States Cultural History, 1936-1967.” Postcolonial Studies 17, no. 3 (2014): 307-319.

Holder, Calvin B. “Racism Toward Black African Diplomats During the Kennedy Administration.” Journal of Black Studies 14, no. 1 (September 1983): 31-48.

Holland, Jearold Winston. Black Recreation: A Historical Perspective. Chicago: Burnham/Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.

Kahrl, Andrew W. The Land Was Ours: How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

Kennedy, Richard A. Automobility, Hospitality, African American Tourism, and Mapping Victor H. Green’s Negro Motorist Green Book. A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Geography Department, East Carolina University, 2013.

Lupkin, Paula Rachel. Manhood Factories: YMCA Architecture and the Making of Modern Urban Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

Luxenberg, Steve. Separate: The Story of ‘Plessy v. Ferguson’ and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation. New York: W.W. Norton Company, 2019.

Reut, Jennifer. “Black Travelers On and Off the Road.” Society of Architectural Historians Archipedia. https://sah-archipedia.org/essays/TH-01-ART-006.

Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. New York: Liveright Publishing, 2017.

Rugh, Susan Sessions. Are We There Yet? The Golden Age of American Family Vacations. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2008.

Sandoval-Strausz, Andrew K. Hotel, an American History New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

Seiler, Cotten. “‘So That We as a Race Might Have Something Authentic to Travel By’: African American Automobility and Cold-War Liberalism.” American Quarterly 58, no. 4 (2006): 1091-1117.

Sorin, Gretchen. Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights. New York: Liveright Publishing, 2020.

Sorin, Gretchen Sullivan. “Keep Going:” African Americans on the Road in the era of Jim Crow. A dissertation presented to the faculty of the State University of New York at Albany, 2009.

Sorin, Gretchen Sullivan. “The Negro Motorist Green-Book”. The Ephemera Journal 13 (2010): 16-27.

Sugrue, Thomas J. Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North. New York: Random House, 2008.

Taylor, Candacy. Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America. New York: Abrams Press, 2020.

Townsend, Jacinda. Driving While Black: African-Americans Used a Crowd-Sourced Guide to Navigate Segregation. Smithsonian (April, 2016). https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/history-green-book-african-american-travelers-180958506/

Trembanis, Sarah L. The Set-Up Men: Race, Culture and Resistance in Black Baseball New York: McFarland and Company, 2014.

Urry, John. The Tourist Gaze, 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2002.

Vachon, Nicholas Murray. “The Junction: The Cold War, Civil Rights, and the African Diplomats of Maryland’s Route 40,” The Primary Source II, issue II (2012-Spring-8). (https//:psource.sitehost.iu.edu)

Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns New York: Random House, 2010.

Williams, Clay. “The Guide for Colored Travelers: A Reflection of the Urban League.” Journal of American and Comparative Cultures 24, no. 3-4 (2001): 71–79.

Wolcott, Victoria W. Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle Over Segregated Recreation in America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.

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