![]() The causes and implications of the associated de jure and de facto residential segregation have received substantial attention from scholars, but there has been little empirical research on racial discrimination in public accommodations during this time period. Jim Crow segregated African Americans and whites by law and practice. The Green Books and the Geography of Segregation in Public Accommodations (NBER Working Paper No. ![]() Establishment counts are collected from the 1950 Negro Motorist Green Book and the number of black residents comes from ICPSR’s Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data. ![]() This project is ongoing.įigure: The number of non-discriminatory (Green Book) establishments per 1000 black residents in 1950. We combine these non-discriminatory establishment counts with secondary data sources to address a variety of questions relating to discrimination in public accommodations prior to the Civil Rights Act. The Green Books were annual travel guides that listed restaurants, gas stations, hotels, and bars that were friendly to African Americans during the 1938-1964 time period. We construct a new measure of discrimination based on establishment counts listed in the “Negro Motorist Green Books”. We study discrimination in public accommodations during Jim Crow to better understand the issues underlying discrimination today. Recent unrest following the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, and the subsequent evolution of the Black Lives Matter movement has thrust the pervasiveness of racial inequality into the public’s eye. Project Description (joint with Lisa Cook, Trevon Logan, and David Rosé)
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