history, such as the Great Migration and the civil rights era. Each chapter highlights a different era of the guide and touches on a related theme in U.S. Readers, too, will come to know this America, if they don’t already. Those stories and images will carry readers along on Taylor’s own journey, which is both spatial and philosophical: “With the Green Book in the rear view mirror,” she writes, “I saw America for what it is, not what it imagines itself or even aspires to be.” With "Overground Railroad", Taylor - an author, photographer, and cultural documentarian - has created a compelling and informative history, as well as a beautiful volume filled with images from various editions of the Green Book, archival photos of the people and places she highlights, and photographs she took of the surviving Green Book businesses.
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