SKOKIE, Ill. (WLS) -- A new traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian Institute has made its way to the Chicago area. "The Negro Motorist Green Book" is now at the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! TV and radio broadcaster Alvin Hall, author of "Driving the Green Book," discusses the basics of the Jim Crow era travel guide for African Americans.

YOU’RE WATCHING KOAT ACTION SEVEN NEWS. CARRY YOUR GREEN BOOK WITH YOU. YOU MAY NEED IT. THOSE ARE THE WORDS ON THE COVER OF A LITTLE BOOK CALLED THE BIBLE OF BLACK TRAVEL. ALYSSA MUNOZ SPOKE TO A UNM ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. NINA MOINI: During the era of Jim Crow laws and racial segregation, 87 locations in Minnesota were listed in the Green Book, a guidebook that helped Black ...

Watching Mary Wilson, feeling the love at New York's glamorous Café Carlyle, it's hard to imagine what she felt at the age of 19 when, as a newly-minted Supreme just out of high school, she went on ...

Sarah Vaughn performed at the Flamingo Club when Lois Perry worked there as a waitress. “She once handed out a $100 bill and said, ‘Keep the change, darling,’” Perry says before breaking into laughter ...

A local heritage group is exploring the hidden history and impacts of the “Green Book” – the mid-20th century travel guide for Black motorists – here in the Evergreen State. You might remember a movie ...

Celebrate Black History Month in the Triangle with this guide of stories on its roots in North Carolina, a list of events, Black-owned businesses and restaurants you should know about and much more.