You can learn a lot about Boston and New England Black-owned locations listed in The Green Book <– click to pull up the Boston Globe’s inteactive map.

You could build your own riding or walking African American Heritage Tour program with the information.

Kudos go to the Boston Globe for designing a comprehensive digital map showing Green Book locations.

Here is a list of websites you can explore to learn more about Boston businesses that were listed in The Green Book, as well as eher they were in your home state

Green Book data sources used by the Globe newspaper

The Architecture of the Negro Traveler’s Green Book – see all the Green Books from 1938 to 1967

N.H.A. Directory and Guide to Travelers from Harlem’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture


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