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DescriptionThe Negro Motorist Green Book.jpg	English: Cover of the book The Negro Motorist Green-Book (1940 edition). This guide book appeared yearly between 1936 and 1966. It helped black travelers navigate "sundown towns" which black people had to leave by sunset. Sometimes it was called "Negro traveller's Green-Book. The guide for travel and vacations" as shown in the Hollywood movie Green Book (2018)
Date	1940
Source	Scan of cover (New York Public Library copy)
Author	Victor Hugo Green

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