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African American Travel Guides Explorer
Explore the directory of safe businesses and services for Black travelers, 1936–1966
Six African American travel guides — including the Travelguide, Go Guide, and Hackley & Harrison's — listed hotels, restaurants, and services for Black travelers from 1930 to 1962. This explorer makes those records searchable across all publications and years.
Source scans held by the New York Public Library, Schomburg Center. Data extracted via OCR and named-entity recognition.
African American Travel Guides Explorer
Explore the directory of safe businesses and services for Black travelers, 1936–1966
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This tool lets you browse structured data extracted from seven travel guides published for Black Americans between 1930 and 1962 — guides that helped Black travelers find welcoming hotels, restaurants, and businesses during the era of racial segregation in the United States.
These seven guides are the lesser-known counterparts to The Negro Motorist Green Book, published annually by Victor H. Green & Co. from 1936 to 1966 and browsable in its own explorer. Read the full history on Wikipedia →
This explorer searches across seven publications at once. Colors mark each publication throughout the site. Each title links to the source scans in NYPL Digital Collections:
Page scans are held by the New York Public Library Digital Collections. Entries were extracted from those scans using an OCR and named-entity-recognition pipeline. The Explorer uses the IIIF standard extensively — entry thumbnails are cropped from the original page images, and each entry’s source link opens the IIIF viewer at the exact page location.
This dataset carries OCR and entity-extraction errors, so always treat the original published pages as the authoritative source. This explorer is a way to engage with the directories more deeply, not a replacement for them. Data has not been reviewed for 100% accuracy.