A new exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution’s collection, opening this week at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, shows how Black American communities safely traveled and stayed connected through the Jim Crow era of segregation. The exhibition, titled “The Negro Motorist Green Book,” opens at the museum on Saturday, Dec. 16. The new exhibit showcases the travel guide — called the Green Book — which was first published in 1936 by Victor Green, a postal carrier from Harlem. For three decades, the guidebook helped African American communities safely travel the country during the Jim Crow era. Victor Hugo Green from “The Negro Travelers’ Green Book,” Fall Edition, 1956. (Cou
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