Indeed, it was an honor to have one’s home listed as a rooming house in the Green-Book, though the listings themselves were minimalist: “ANDALUSIA (Alabama) TOURIST HOMES: Mrs. Another of Green’s innovations prefigured today’s residential lodging networks like Airbnb, his guide listed private residences where black travelers could stay safely. And black travelers were soon assisting Green-submitting suggestions, in an early example of what today would be called user-generated content. Mail carriers, Ramsey explains, were uniquely situated to know which homes would accommodate travelers they mailed reams of listings to Green. (The 1941 edition above resides in the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.) The guide pointed black travelers to places including hotels, restaurants, beauty parlors, nightclubs, golf courses and state parks. The Green-Book final edition, in 1966-67, filled 99 pages and embraced the entire nation and even some international cities. If a person could travel by car-and those who could, did-they would feel more in control of their destiny. The power of the guide, says Ramsey, also the author of a children’s book and a play focused on Green-Book history, was that it “created a safety net. The 15-page directory covered Green’s home turf, the New York metropolitan area, listing establishments that welcomed blacks. Green, a 44-year-old black postal carrier in Harlem, relied on his own experiences and on recommendations from black members of his postal service union for the inaugural guide bearing his name, The Negro Motorist Green-Book, in 1937. With director and co-producer Becky Wible Searles, he interviewed Wynter for their forthcoming documentary about the visionary entrepreneur who set out to make travel easier and safer for African-Americans. “It didn’t matter if you were Lena Horne or Duke Ellington or Ralph Bunche traveling state to state, if the road was not friendly or obliging,” says New York City-based filmmaker and playwright Calvin Alexander Ramsey. My sister was crying my mother was hysterical.”
“We sat until the sun came up,” she says. Wynter’s father, Richard Irby, switched off his headlights and parked under a tree. In North Carolina, her family hid in their Buick after a local sheriff passed them, made a U-turn and gave chase. Paula Wynter, a Manhattan-based artist, recalls a frightening road trip when she was a young girl during the 1950s. Driving interstate distances to unfamiliar locales, black motorists ran into institutionalized racism in a number of pernicious forms, from hotels and restaurants that refused to accommodate them to hostile “sundown towns,” where posted signs might warn people of color that they were banned after nightfall. The role of the clerk and recording clerkĪpproved! includes additional tools for Quaker meetings, schools, and camps to help children learn the basics of Quaker process including queries, a glossary, and a brief overview of junior meeting for business at Wellesley Monthly Meeting in Massachusetts.Īprobado! Una Historia Acerca de la Junta de Acuerdos de los CuáquerosĪt the request of Kenya Casanova of Cuba Yearly Meeting and Karen Gregorio of Santidad Yearly Meeting, Guatemala, both members of FWCC Section of the Americas Executive Committee, the book has been translated for Spanish-speaking Quakers in Latin America and the United States.For black Americans traveling by car in the era of segregation, the open road presented serious dangers.The story uses simple, clear language and charming artwork to introduce Quaker process, highlighting How can children work cooperatively to make decisions? Approved! A Story About Quaker Meeting for Business tells of a group of children who want to donate the money they earned selling hot dogs at their Quaker meeting. We Answered With Love is based on the letters of these two thoughtful young people, giving a personal perspective on the role of pacifists during the Great War and, at the same time, revealing a delightful, romantic story of friendship turning to love.Īpproved! A Story About Quaker Meeting for Business By Nancy L. Both hoped that their love of mankind would lead them to living out their highest ideals. Mary Peabody worked to change conditions at home as a radical socialist and anti-war activist. Leslie Hotson’s conscience led him to go to France with the American Friends Service Committee to repair the wounds of war.
But not everyone believed in the rightness of war. In Am erica, 1918 was a time of zealous patriotism.
We Answered With Love: Pacifist Service in World War I The Letters of Leslie Hotson and Mary Peabody By Nancy Learned Haines
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