{"id":6692,"date":"2010-08-24T13:52:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T13:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/08\/a-moment-for-reflection.html"},"modified":"2010-08-24T13:52:39","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T13:52:39","slug":"a-moment-for-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/08\/a-moment-for-reflection.html","title":{"rendered":"A Moment for Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/assets_c\/2010\/08\/GreenBook-17479.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/120\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/08\/GreenBook-thumb-333x436-17479.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"436\" alt=\"GreenBook.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/a><\/span>A friend passed <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/23\/books\/23green.html?_r=1&amp;emc=eta1\">a link to this article<\/a><\/b> to me. I read it and it made me stop in my tracks and ponder what life was like, the injustice of it all, the ingenuity needed to cope with the injustice, and the need to continue to work for justice in our world &#8230; especially in the Church that claims Jesus as Lord.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\">\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: black;font-size: 1.2em;margin-top: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 0px;line-height: 24px\">For almost three decades beginning in 1936, many African-American travelers relied on a booklet to help them decide where they could comfortably eat, sleep, buy gas, find a tailor or beauty parlor, shop on a honeymoon to Niagara Falls, or go out at night. In 1949, when the guide was 80 pages, there were five recommended hotels in Atlanta. In Cheyenne, Wyo., the Barbeque Inn was the place to stay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: black;font-size: 1.2em;margin-top: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 0px;line-height: 24px\">A Harlem postal employee and civic leader named Victor H. Green conceived the guide in response to one too many accounts of humiliation or violence where discrimination continued to hold strong. These were facts of life not only in the Jim Crow South, but in all parts of the country, where black travelers never knew where they would be welcome. Over time its full title &#8212; &#8220;The Negro Motorist Green Book: An International Travel Guide&#8221; &#8212; became abbreviated, simply, as the &#8220;Green Book.&#8221; Those who needed to know about it knew about it. To much of the rest of America it was invisible, and by 1964, when the last edition was published, it slipped through the cracks into history.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend passed a link to this article to me. 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