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hadro/green-books-travel-guides

African American Travel Guides: The Green Book & Companion Directories (1930–1966) A unified, structured dataset of 113,827 business and lodging listings transcribed from 50 volumes of mid-20th-century African American travel guides, spanning 1930–1966. During the Jim Crow era, these guides told Black travelers which hotels, restaurants, tourist homes, service stations, and other businesses would serve them safely. This dataset brings The Negro Motorist Green Book together with… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/hadro/green-books-travel-guides.

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f6e7f0f1mo ago

Dataset card: 113,827 rows / 50 volumes / 8 publications

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4b46a3e1mo ago

volume_rights: 50 volumes (4 new NYPL PDREN rows)

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25f20741mo ago

Add Afro-American's Travel Guide 1954-1958 (113,827 rows, 50 volumes)

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2dadd2c2mo ago

Add the 1946 Green Book edition (Library of Congress)

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3a4cf282mo ago

Add the 1946 Green Book edition (Library of Congress)

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ed5ddd53mo ago

Upload folder using huggingface_hub

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ead307a3mo ago

initial commit

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