Daily News | ‘The Green Book’ inspires an artist in a new African American Museum exhibit
, it didn’t take long for him to realize how complex and innovative this seemingly simple guidebook actually was.were straightforward. In 1936, Victor Hugo Green, a New York postal worker, put together a practical 15-page list of places Black travelers could use without, as Green put it, “running into difficulties, embarrassments and to make his trip more enjoyable.”helped navigate the racism of an America still very much in the grip of Jim Crow.
“Hugo was a postal worker, and he had a full-time job. So he had a stable income and a stable job,” said Adams. “But on his own time, he decided to compile this data to make traveling for Black Americans safer and also to connect.” “I find the exhibition to be incredibly comforting and challenging,” she said. “That banner that’s in the exhibition that says “Are we there yet” — I love that tongue in cheek. Are we to a place yet where we can just move forward to a place of safety, and we just never seem to get there. At least not yet.”The Green Book
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