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Cover of The Negro Travelers’ Green Book, 1953

Featured Research The Green Book: A Roadmap to Freedom

How a Harlem postal worker’s guide helped Black Americans travel with greater safety, dignity, and freedom through Jim Crow America.

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Why This Archive Exists

In 1860, the community of Africatown told the story of the Clotilda for over a century before the outside world caught up. This archive exists to close that gap — to give community accounts, family memory, and oral history a place to be documented, discussed, and recognized, on their way to being proven.

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