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The Explorers Club Aims to Shed Its Rich, White, Colonialist Image
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The Explorers Club Finally Addresses Its Problematic Membership Bloomberg 2/16/2021
(Bloomberg) Members of the Explorers Club have done all sorts of truly remarkable things.
Since the club’s founding in 1904, they’ve included the first summit of Mount Everest (by member Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953), the first trip to both the North and South poles (by members Robert Peary and Roald Amundsen, respectively), the first trip to the moon (Neil Armstrong, in ’69), and the first descent to the deepest point in the ocean (James Cameron, 2012).
Besides belonging to the most prestigious club for adventurers, these trailblazers share another thing: They’re all white men.
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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.
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Every week on
Travel + Leisure, we bring you incredible stories of people breaking boundaries and redefining what it means to be a traveler. Last week we introduced you to a lesbian couple traveling the world together and documenting their journeys to help other LGBTQIA+ travelers explore. This year we ve also heard firsthand accounts from Black roadtrippers, plus-sized folks reshaping travel, and even travelers with physical disabilities who refuse to be stopped by their physical limitations.
This week, our incredible host Kellee Edwards introduces listeners to Mario Rigby and Rondel Holder, to discuss their journeys tracing their ancestries and exploring countries across the African continent to get closer to their roots.
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