This is the Evans Tourist Home in Fort Worth, Texas, listed in the 1957 Negro Travelers’ Green Book. I wasn’t able…
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Whooo!! I’d never been to 99 percent of the Green Book neighborhoods prior to this trip, but I knew where 1839 Fort…
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As in most cities during the 1950s, white flight was in full flower in Dallas as discriminatory redlining by banks…
Until the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, most hotels and motels actively discriminated against blacks. And…
Just a 10-minute jog to the Mexican border sits what was listed in the 1957 Negro Travelers’ Green Book as the A.…
I asked folks, “Which black businesses should I check out in Phoenix?” and universally people said, “Lo-Lo’s Chicken…
The dilapidated neighborhood sits in the dark shadow of downtown Phoenix, an American shantytown that time forgot.…
On the outskirts of Phoenix, on a nondescript street of a forgettable block, sits an extraordinary relic of black…
Dawn hadn’t broken at 5 a.m. PDT when I jumped into the Mustang and headed east. #TheRootTrip is officially underway,…
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What’s up, everyone! My name is Lawrence Ross, and if there’s one thing you should know about me, it’s that I love…