Victor Hugo Green

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Victor Hugo Green (born November 9, 1892 in New York City ; died 1960 there ) was an African-American postal worker and travel writer. He wrote the so-called Green Book , a travel guide for blacks during the period of racial segregation and the Jim Crow laws .

Life

Victor H. Green attended school through seventh grade and then became a postman in Hackensack, New Jersey . In 1933, during the Harlem Renaissance, he moved to Harlem and began managing his brother-in-law, Robert Duke, a musician.

The greenbook

Green came up with the idea of ​​writing a travel guide in 1932 that would enable African Americans to travel without humiliation. The first edition appeared in 1936. It initially only included hotels and restaurants in and around New York. Later editions of the Negro Travelers Green Book also listed addresses of doctors, tailors, and gas stations serving blacks throughout the United States , Canada , Mexico, and Bermuda . The book was seen as a survival aid for blacks at the time of racial segregation.

Facsimile:

  • Victor Hugo Green: Travelers' green book: international edition 1963-1964: for vacation without aggravation: Hotels, vacation resorts, restaurants, tourist homes , Camarillo, California: About Comics, [2017] (Original: 1963), ISBN 978-1 -936404-70-4

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Green Book - The forgotten Story of one Carrier's Legacy helping Others navigate Jim Crow's Highways , Postal Record, September 2013, p. 22. (English, PDF)
  2. ^ Travel Guide helped African-Americans navigate tricky Times , CNN February 25, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Green, Victor Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION African American postal worker and travel writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH 1960
Place of death New York City