Traveling with the Negro Motorist Green Book — Chicago as destination

CTL-E-1304 · Practice · other · 1936–1966

Verified evidence grade of this record

Black motorists used the Green Book (1936–1966) to find welcoming hotels, restaurants, gas stations, and attractions; Chicago's listings concentrated ~80% in Bronzeville, effectively mapping the everyday Black commercial landscape for travelers.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from LIFE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-LIFE-001:CTL-LIFE-E-040; source research type(s): practice.

Sources

GlobeNewswire/SITES, "Travel Back in Time with 'The Negro Motorist Green Book' Exhibition" (2023-01-12)
GlobeNewswire/SITES (2023-01-12)

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Chicken Bone Beach, Atlantic City — the historically segregated Black beachPhoto: LittleT889, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Negro leagues All-Stars, East-West Game, Comiskey Park, Chicago, 1936Photo: unattributed (via Heritage Auctions), Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Satchel Paige — 1948 Leaf baseball card portrait1948 Leaf baseball card, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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