17th Year Afro-American's Travel Guide

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A yellow and black 36-page travel pamphlet, 17th Year Afro-American's Travel Guide, published by The African-American Newspaper (The Afro), 9 May 1942. This annual guidebook was published by the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper, competing with the famous Negro Motorist's Green Book. It lists more than a thousand hotels and other businesses "providing accommodations for the colored traveler," in addition to numerous advertisements. Most of the 50 states are represented, in addition to numerous motels in Canada and the Caribbean, and 3 pages of listings for camps. This guide is undated but the first edition was issued as a single-sheet map. The 9 May 1942 issue of the Afro-American announces the imminent publication of their "second annual travel map." That would place this 17th edition in 1957, which fits with an ad on the final page (back cover) which shows ballplayer Roy Campanella in his Brooklyn Dodgers cap.

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