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Protecting Green Book sites in the Mountain West

Black Americans used the Green Book in the mid-1900s to find safe places to travel. Now an organization in our region is highlighting many of these locations.

Broadcast on:
28 Feb 2023

Contemporary reprints of original Green Books from 1940 (front) and 1954.
Contemporary reprints of original Green Books from 1940 (front) and 1954.

Black Americans used the Green Book in the mid-1900s to find safe places to travel. Now an organization in our region is highlighting many of these locations.

Emma Vandeneinde of the Mountain West News Bureau joins one woman as she shares her family’s history with the book.