THE GREEN BOOK: Three local businesses provided services for African American travelers during Jim Crow

J.T. Robinson displays a copy of the Green Book which lists the Riverside Restaurant at 200 S. Broadway St., Natchez. It was the business that was owned and managed by his grandmother, Willie C. Walker, in the 1960s. (Click on image to enlarge.)

The Green Book was a travelers guide for African American motorists that listed safe places for them to visit during the Jim Crow era, when segregation and discrimination were legal. Created by Victor Hugo Green (1892-1960), the book was published from 1936 to 1967.

This article discusses the three businesses in Natchez, Miss., that appeared in the Green Book beginning in 1956. They included Homes Restaurant at 208 St. Catherine St., Mrs. S. Miller Tourist Home at 31 Bishop Street, and Riverside Restaurant at 200 S. Broadway St. Riverside Restaurant and Mrs. S. Miller Tourist Home appeared in each edition from 1956 through the final edition in 1967.

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