Lesson Overview
The Negro Travelers’ Green Book began publication in 1936. The book offered “Assured Protection for the Negro Traveler”. The publisher-owner Victor Green began the idea from personal experiences while traveling.This lesson uses this primary source and others to help students understand how Jim Crow Laws made travel different for African Americans.
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Computer/Devices with internet access
- The Gold Cadillac
- The Negro Traveler's Green Book and Tourism Promotional Brochure
- South Carolina Smiles and Places.
- Manilla Folders, Crayons, Pencils, and Paper
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- 3-5 The student will demonstrate an understanding of the major developments in South Carolina in the late nineteenth and the twentieth century.
- 5.2.CX Contextualize the post-war economic climate on the cultural landscape throughout the United States and South Carolina.
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Lesson Partners: Teaching American History in South Carolina, Richland School District 1, South Carolina Department of Archives and History