Road trip

Here's a book that snuck in over the summer while no one was looking: On the Move: Transportation and the American Story by Janet F. Davidson and Michael S. Sweeney (Q.338.0973D283o). It's the companion volume to the largest exhibition ever created by the National Museum of American History. The book is full of all sorts of unexpected images like this one:



The caption reads: "Beginning in 1936, the annual Negro Motorist Green-Book listed restaurants, lodging, and other businesses that welcomed African-American travelers. A happy purchaser told Victor H. Green, the guide's originator and publisher, that it would prove to 'mean as much if not more to us as the AAA [American Automobile Association] means to the white race.' " Wow.