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'Green Book' Guide for Black Travelers From 1955 Remembered

First Posted: 08/23/10 06:16 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 06:25 PM ET

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A Harlem postal employee and civic leader named Victor H. Green conceived the guide in response to one too many accounts of humiliation or violence where discrimination continued to hold strong.

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A Harlem postal employee and civic leader named Victor H. Green conceived the guide in response to one too many accounts of humiliation or violence where discrimination continued to hold strong.
A Harlem postal employee and civic leader named Victor H. Green conceived the guide in response to one too many accounts of humiliation or violence where discrimination continued to hold strong.
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