Green Books Exhibit

This was my exhibit as part of the Americans on the Road series at UC Berkeley in 2018.

Titled Black Americans on the Road, the description read:

Between 1936 and 1966, The Negro Travelers’ Green Book published businesses throughout the United States where African Americans could patron without being turned away. Earl Hutchinson, Sr. quoted on the display, used it to find a new “promised land free from discrimination” in California. Every California listing is shown here. If using only the Green Book for California, black people would have been limited to primarily the deserts and the Central Valley.

The exhibit featured reproductions of four Green Books, postcards, and the American Automobile Association’s 1943 roadmap of California and Nevada. I also displayed all the California listings, first organized by year of appearance, then by year of disappearance. The listing serves as a graphical timeline of businesses in the Green Books.