"The Negro Motorist Green Book, 1949
“The Negro traveler's inconveniences,” writes Wendell P. Alston in The Negro Motorist Green Book for 1949, “are many and they are increasing because today so many more are traveling, individually and in groups. . . .
The GREEN BOOK with its list of hotels, boarding houses, restaurants, beauty shops, barber shops and various other services can most certainly help solve your travel problems. It was the idea of Victor H. Green, the publisher, in introducing the Green Book, to save the travelers of his race as many difficulties and embarrassments as possible.”
http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Race/R_Casestudy/Negro_motorist_green_bk.htm>
(Part of the Henry Ford collection at UMich.)
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What a trip. I spent a few hours this afternoon with Green's guide. Anywhere west of KC looked iffy. After some study, it made sense this would be on a Jazz research list. Still, if you could afford a Ford, probably better to take the train using the same list.
CG