A nonfiction picture book about The Green Book, a travel guide for African Americans during segregation, and the man who wrote it. In the late 1930s when segregation was legal and Black Americans couldn't visit or travel everywhere they wanted to safely, Victor Hugo Green decided to do something about it. Green wrote and published a guide that listed places where his fellow Black Americans could be safe in New York City. The guide sold like hot cakes! Soon customers started asking Green to make a guide to help them travel and vacation safely across the nation too. With the help of his mail carrier co-workers and the African American business community, Green's guide allowed millions of African Americans to travel safely and enjoy traveling across the nation.
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