In 1937, Victor Hugo Green created the International Travel Guide that offered Black motorists a listing of safe spaces.
Deborah Omowale Jarmon, director and CEO of The San Antonio African American Community Archive & Museum greets guests as she hosts a tour for the unveiling of Green Book Historical Markers around San Antonio that were designated safe spaces for Black motorists during the Jim Crow era on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. A group of about 50 people went on the tour on the city’s Eastside with historians and educators who studied locations around San Antonio marked as safe spaces for African Americans.
Eleven of those safe spaces have been highlighted in recent research by the San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum in partnership with the city and Pamela Walker, assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University-San Antonio.Attorney Oliver W. Johnson served San Antonio’s Black community during a time when courtrooms were segregated. One of his first offices was on the West Side, near the Missouri Pacific Railroad and Black neighborhood.
Shirley Allen walks with Texas A&M - San Antonio history professor Pamela Walker at the first stop as the San Antonio African American Community Archive & Museum hosts a tour for the unveiling of Green Book Historical Markers around San Antonio on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. The book designated safe spaces for Black motorists during the Jim Crow era.
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