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The Green Book Today

© Sarah Hoskins

Artist: Sarah Hoskins

Project:  The Places That Were Safe: What Sanctuary Looks Like Now

Description: In an homage to Victor Hugo Green’s The Negro Motorist Green Book—a guidebook first published in 1936 as a depository of safe spaces for African-American travelers—Sarah Hoskins set out to photograph these landmarks as they stand today. While some buildings still hold the businesses that operated then, many have assumed different uses. Some simply sit abandoned, and others were demolished entirely. Hoskins captured these structures and their surroundings, compiling her own visual, contemporary list of the stops necessitated by discrimination in the Jim Crow era. Many of the photos’ captions share the address’s title as it was listed in a 1956 edition of the Green Book, which Hoskins used to guide her project.

Lancaster, KY

Amoco Service Station, Cleveland

Atlanta, GA

Breck's Beauty Parlor, Cincinnati

Demitrius, The Strand Hotel, Chicago

Drugstore, Indianapolis

DuSable Hotel, Chicago

Francine's Beauty Parlor, Youngstown

Wheatly Hotel, Cleveland

Haley's Drugstore, Gary

Johnson's Rooms, Milwaukee

Paddock Restaurant, Louisville

Martin's Tavern, New Orleans

Michael, The Oddfellows Building, Atlanta

Orlando Pastell Lampkins, Tourist Home, Milwaukee

Leah Chase, Dooky Chase's Restaurant, New Orleans

Sutton's Restaurant, Atlanta

Tami, Haley's Restaurant, Racine

The Pelican Restaurant, Detroit

The Carlton Hotel, Detroit

The Don Hotel, Chicago

The Southway Hotel, Chicago

Tomealya, Joe's Coffee Bar, Atlanta

Yea Man Tavern, Atlanta





Sarah Hoskins

Sarah’s photography is currently on view in the PhotoNOLA CURRENTS Exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Art. Her work is also touring as part of the exhibition Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt & the Four Freedoms, which began in May 2018 and will continue through October 2020, including stops in Normandy, France, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. You can view more of her work on her website.