Opening the Road: Victor Hugo Green and His Green Book Sociology of Class the trajectory for Black people

the trajectory for Black people is not improving

When you go to a marchAnd raise your sign highYou’ll make people smilewho thought you were shyAnd you’ll make people wonder

” —ALEXANDER SMALLS

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Opening the Road: Victor Hugo Green and His Green Book Sociology of Class the trajectory for Black peopleThe true, untold story of the postal worker who wrote The Green Book. "Hungry? Check the Green Book. Tired? Check the Green Book. Sick? Check the Green Book." In the late 1930s when segregation was legal and Black Americans couldn't visit every establishment or travel everywhere they wanted to safely, a New Yorker named Victor Hugo Green decided to do something about it. Green wrote and published a guide that listed places where his fellow Black