22 digitized editions of The Negro Motorist Green Book, a travel guide published between 1936 and 1966 that listed hotels, restaurants, etc. where black travelers would be welcome. Visit Navigating The Green Book to visualize a trip using data extracted from the Green Books by the New York Public Library.
Includes digitized collections arranged as exhibits, as well as essays that deconstruct racist caricatures. The Resources section includes links to other institutions, associations, and collections that cover Jim Crow and related topics.
Mapping Inequality introduces viewer to the records of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation on a scale that is unprecedented. Here you can browse more than 150 interactive maps and thousands of "area descriptions."
Directives and memoranda related to the Public Housing Administration's policies and procedures.
Public housing at the federal level was introduced in 1937 and was intended to provide public financing of low-cost housing in the form of publicly- managed and owned multifamily developments. This collection includes directives and memoranda related to the Public Housing Administration's policies and procedures. Among the documents are civil rights correspondence, statements and policy about race, labor-based state activity records, local housing authorities' policies on hiring minorities, court cases involving housing decisions, racially-restrictive covenants, and news clippings. The intra-agency correspondence consists of reports on sub-Cabinet groups on civil rights, racial policy, employment, and Commissioner's staff meetings.
This project from the New York Public Library contains over 8,300 illustrations, 60 maps, and thousands of pages of primary and secondary texts focusing on the thirteen defining migrations that transformed the African-American experience and the United States as a nation, including the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Colonization, Haitian Immigration, the Great Migration, and more.
