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Few people would relish being told where they can and can t go. But that was the reality for African Americans living in the Jim Crow era.
From 1936 to 1966,
The Negro Motorist Green Book and subsequent titles helped keep Black travelers and their families safe, with warnings about sundown towns, where people of color could face intimidation and violence after dark, and recommendations on the hotels, restaurants, and businesses that would welcome them. Portrait of unidentified people on the wooden steps of the Idlewild Club House, Idlewild, Michigan, September 1938.
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A snapshot taken in 1938 in Idlewild, Michigan, a resort town that welcomed African Americans and became known as the Black Eden.