LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Examiner) - Stories from the public are being sought to complete research into the state’s history during the Jim Crow-era, when African-Americans used a “green book” to find ...

also the author of a children’s book and a play focused on Green-Book history, was that it “created a safety net. If a person could travel by car—and those who could, did—they would feel ...

Victor Hugo Green, the creator of the Green Book, was born in New York City in ... Dr. Scot Brown, professor of African American Studies and history at UCLA. were white communities that used ...

P erhaps in many circles, John Green is best known for penning novels like The Fault In Our Stars and Looking for Alaska. The author, who has been publishing books for 20 years, h ...

and funeral homes once listed in The Green Book. I also delved deeply into the history of the guide: the circumstances that prompted Victor Green, a postman who lived in Harlem but delivered mail ...

“It’s an important, almost forgotten, aspect of our history. I just want people to know that this was needed,” said Patrick Bochy, who has studied the Green Book’s place in Jim Crow Americ ...

'Green books' like this one offered Black travelers welcoming places to eat and stay when away from home. (Courtesy of Nebraska State Historical Society) LINCOLN — Stories from the public are ...

The stories from Nebraskans are needed to complete a two-year research project about this lesser-known chapter of state history. “The goal is to increase awareness about Nebraska’s Green Book ...