Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/The Negro Motorist Green Book

The Negro Motorist Green Book

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page. 

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/January 18, 2016 by Brianboulton (talk) 16:22, 31 December 2015 (UTC)



The Negro Motorist Green Book was an annual guidebook for African American travelers in the United States. It was originated and published by New York City mailman Victor H. Green from 1936 to 1966, during the Jim Crow era, when racial discrimination was widespread. Although discrimination and poverty limited African American car ownership, many middle-class blacks took to driving to avoid segregation on public transportation. They faced dangers and inconveniences such as white-owned businesses refusing to serve them or repair their vehicles, being refused accommodation or food by white-owned hotels, and threats of physical violence and forcible expulsion from whites-only "sundown towns". Green intended the book "to give the Negro traveler information that will keep him from running into difficulties, embarrassments and to make his trip more enjoyable." It became "the bible of black travel during Jim Crow" but was little known outside the African American community. Its publication ceased shortly after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Interest in it has revived in the early 21st century in connection with studies of black travel during the Jim Crow era.
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 * Promoted: 2015
 * Reasons for nomination: I wrote this article to provide a microcosm of the history of race relations in the United States through the lens of a relatively obscure book about motoring. It's attracted a good deal of interest and passed a Featured Article nomination earlier this year. I'd like to nominate it to run on January 18, the next Martin Luther King Day, as the most appropriate day for it to appear as TFA. Prioryman (talk) 14:06, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Support as nominator. Prioryman (talk) 14:06, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Support A brilliant article. - Dank (push to talk) 17:14, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Support Interesting topic and article. --Harizotoh9 (talk) 17:16, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Support, and thanks for nominating it yourself, or I would have done it, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:26, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: Please add to summary chart. Brianboulton (talk) 22:21, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
 * done --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:50, 9 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Support, per date connection. sst✈(discuss) 07:51, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Support A fascinating article. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:20, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Support - fascinating indeed.--BabbaQ (talk) 01:08, 26 December 2015 (UTC)