You might have heard of the Negro Motorist Green Book, the guide for African Americans vacationing in the USA, showing them places where they would be safe. Well, Jews in the USA needed similar information, and shared it in guides like this. We used to know that we shared the same struggle.
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By Al Vorspan The movie Selma moved me very deeply, and I was impressed with the superb acting (especially MLK) and brilliant writing. But I was also troubled that this movie (so clearly on the side o...
Interesting that the organization that published it was the Federation of Jewish Farmers of America.
You may already have seen this, but someone tried to track down a copy last year. The New York Public Library's Jewish Division provided them with a digital copy! Blog Post: systemschangeconsulting.wordpress.com/2022/02/08/t...drive.google.com/file/d/1t0br...
Recently, a Facebook friend posted the cover to, the Jewish Vacation Guide: Hotels, Boarding and Rooming Houses where Jews are Welcome published by The Federation of Jewish Farmers of America. This fa...
When a Black person tells me that place X is a sundown town I add it to my personal mental list of places to avoid. If the city doesn’t want black people they don’t want me either & if they somehow did I wouldn’t want to stop there anyway
Not only did we know that, it was Jewish travel guidebooks that inspired Victor Green to create The Green Book in the first place.
IICR, a lot of the businesses listed overlapped.
It's too bad that a large number of Ashkenazi sought and became comfortable with achieving whiteness instead of equality.
I love peach lady!
Yeah, my bubbe had one. I assume from another relative, she never went anywhere.