Driving the Green Book

A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance Alvin Hall Paperback HISTORY/African American & Black Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America’s haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide. A tour-de-force blending exhaustive research, exquisite writing, and emotionally resonant visuals. The book is also a testament to Black resilience during the Jim Crow era, the strategic thinking that helped Black families not only endure but to prevail over tyrannical anti-Black laws, and the ingenuity that held Black communities together from east to west, north to south. This is a must-read.”—Bakari Sellers, New York Times bestselling author of My Vanishing Country. For countless Americans, the open road has been a place where dangers lurk. In the era of Jim Crow, Black travelers encountered locked doors, hostile police, and potentially violent encounters almost everywhere, in both the South and North. From 1936 to 1967, millions of people relied on the guide.