You will analyze the spring 1956 edition of The Negro Travelers’ Green Book in this worksheet (available here https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/greenbook/id/0) to understand how

We have dedicated this week to focusing on the intersection of race, ethnicity, and human geography, focusing mostly on ways that race and ethnicity have been operationalized and deployed to exclude within the United States. We know the meanings ascribed to racial differences are contingent and place-based. In this worksheet, you are going to examine how minoritized, othered, and excluded peoples adapted to navigate exclusions within the United States.
You will analyze the spring 1956 edition of The Negro Travelers’ Green Book in this worksheet (available here https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/greenbook/id/0) to understand how race, ethnicity, and geography interact.
Please answer each question numerically, as shown on the assignment sheet.
When did the George I. Smith found the Green Book?
Why did Smith and colleagues create the Green Book?
Find a ‘safe’ space here in Michigan (begins on page 29 of the Green Book).
Where is it?
What is the business and what services does it (likely) offer?
Do an internet search for the place you have found in the Green Book. What information can you find about that place and its history? (include any links that you found to respond to this question)
Does this business still exist today? What could you find?
What did Idlewild, Michigan offer people of color who traveled? What kinds of businesses?
Why do you think Michigan occupied a special place for a changing United States?
What does the Green Book tell you about the relationship between race and geography in the United States of 1956?
Do these histories still matter today? Why or why not?
Submit your completed worksheet to the Elearning Dropbox by 11:59 P.M. on Sunday, February 26.