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Smithsonian celebrates Green Book travel guide in new exhibition

Guidebook distributed at Esso stations in the US helped African American motorists map out safe routes in segregated society

Resource: 1954 edition of "The Negro Motorist Green Book", subject of a three-year US travelling exhibition organised by the Smithsonian Institution and sponsored by ExxonMobil.
Resource: 1954 edition of "The Negro Motorist Green Book", subject of a three-year US travelling exhibition organised by the Smithsonian Institution and sponsored by ExxonMobil.Photo: AP/SCANPIX
  • Russell McCulley
London
Published 7 January 2021, 09:22Updated 7 January 2021, 09:22