The Negro Motorist Green-Book
by Victor H. Green, Sam Sloan, Nat Gertler · first published 2016
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…up in the midwest, and because racism of the Jim Crow sort was more blatant in the south, I thought we were relatively innocent. But I no longer think that. As an example, I got a reproduction of the Negro Motorist Green Book. [1] It was a good exercise trying to imagine planning one of the road trips I've been on, but only staying at the small number of places that would accept black people. I also learned from that book…
on “NextDoor Says Users Who Share Posts with Reporters Could Be Kicked Off the Site” ↗…these warnings/threats. The cities that put up these signs and highway billboards became known as Sunset Towns (although in the last 2 decades the term "Sundown town"[1] became more popular[2]). The Negro Motorist Green Book was a travel guide that was written to help black people plan roadtrips. It acknowledged that "the White traveler has had no difficulty in getting accommodations, but with the Negro it has been different".…
Black Americans have highlighted what and where is safe for them during traveling for a long time now. I'd say there needs to be a 21 century version of the Negro Motorist Green Book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Motorist_Green_Book
on “AirBnbWhileBlack Highlights Discrimination Faced by Black Travelers” ↗…introducing new ethnicities into a neighborhood as an ethics violation until 1968. http://www.inman.com/2014/04/17/realtor-code-of-ethics-once-... published in New York: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Motorist_Green_Book
on “How Turbans Helped Some Blacks Go Incognito in the Jim Crow Era” ↗> To past generations of Americans, cars represented freedom. Cars transcended race No they didn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Motorist_Green_Book
on “Los Angeles, the Automobile, and Mexican American Life” ↗Yes - they just didn't serve blacks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Motorist_Green_Book What mistake do I think you are making? You said: "It actually refers to the government's legal authority to mandate that privately owned businesses provide separate nut equal facilities for blacks".…
on “The Hypocrisy Of Sam Yagan and OkCupid ” ↗Since this site seems to be down, here are some other resources: Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Motorist_Green_Book A very powerful clipping from the book: https://i.imgur.com/fo8vKHO.png You can read the full book here: https://archive.org/stream/history_green_book/87_135_1736_Gr... And there's an article here:…
on “The Negro Travelers' Green Book (1956)” ↗On a tangential note, this part of US history is somewhat relevant to this subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Motorist_Green_Book
on “Yelp Wants to Become the Racism Police” ↗…location of black-friendly establishments which was especially invaluable when going for long distance drives in unknown territory. Published all the way up to '66! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Motorist_Green_Book
on “America’s Forgotten Tea Rooms” ↗> Open Source has shown that individuals will work on solutions Sure, but that's nothing special about open source. Individuals have worked on solutions for a very long time. "The Negro Motorist Green Book" would not have worked without the contribution of many individuals to the solution. > Of course, doing this day in and day out could lead to burnout As Open Source demonstrated earlier this year in…
on “How can we trust Open Sources power but doubt Socialism's potential to unite us?” ↗…that would be more expensive. Got it. And no, as the history behind the 2018 movie 'Green Book' taught us, the real sharing economy, as is something other than labor exploitation, has older roots. The Negro Motorist Green Book was a guidebook published 1936–1966 for African-Americans to have safe road trips during the Jim Crow era. Some of the information was voluntarily collected by U.S postal workers who gathered the information…
on “DHL Pioneered the Sharing Economy” ↗As I commented when this came up yesterday, there are older (and better!) examples of a sharing economy. The Negro Motorist Green Book was a guidebook published 1936–1966 for African-Americans to have safe road trips during the Jim Crow era. Some of the information was voluntarily collected by U.S postal workers who gathered the information…
on “DHL pioneered the sharing economy (2016)” ↗