Photographing Jim Crow-Era 'Green Book' Locations | KQED Arts

Описание: When African-American travelers wanted to drive across the U.S. in the Jim Crow era, they consulted a guidebook specially made and marketed to the growing black middle class. 'The Negro Motorist Green Book', published between 1936 and 1966, told them where it was safe to stop for gas, where to eat and where to sleep, where they wouldn’t be refused service because of racial discrimination.

Over half a century later, Palo Alto artist Jonathan Calm (https://www.jonathancalm.com/) revisits the sites listed in the 'Green Book', photographing them in black and white as part of a growing archive, and exploring the myth of the road trip as a quintessential American freedom.

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Archival footage sources:

Alabama Department of Archives and History. Donated by Alabama Media Group. Photo by Ed Jones or Robert Adams, Birmingham News.
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Alabama Department of Archives and History. Donated by Alabama Media Group. Unknown photographer, Birmingham News.
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Alabama Department of Archives and History. Donated by Alabama Media Group. Photo by Tom Self, Birmingham News.
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Alabama Department of Archives and History. Donated by Alabama Media Group. Photo by Anthony Falletta, Birmingham News.
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Stetson Kennedy Papers, Southern Labor Archives, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.

Center for Sacramento History, R. Pitts Dunlap Family Collection, 1998/003.

Prelinger Archives; National Archives; USIA; Library of Congress; Bettman/Getty Images; Nevada Historical Society.

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