3 Essential Ways Black Travelers Protected Ourselves During The Jim Crow Era
Black History Year
PushBlack
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🗓️ 20 April 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Shoebox lunches, overalls, and a handy Green Book kept our people safe during turbulent times to travel while Black. Here’s how they did it and what we can learn from their genius.
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| 0:00.0 | In 1963, America's Georgia, 15 Black girls joined a protest. |
| 0:05.9 | One for the matinee, please. |
| 0:08.1 | Negroes, get your tickets in the back. |
| 0:11.1 | We just want tickets to see the show. |
| 0:12.8 | It comes a whole mess of tickets for each and every one of you. |
| 0:16.3 | Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. |
| 0:21.2 | Based on the true story, Push Black Presents, |
| 0:24.9 | The Stolen Girls of America's. |
| 0:27.5 | Listen and follow on the Odyssey app, |
| 0:29.8 | or wherever you find your podcast. |
| 0:34.0 | Shubach lunches, overalls, and a handy green book |
| 0:37.4 | kept our people's safe during turbulent times to travel while black. |
| 0:42.2 | Here's how they did it and what we can learn from their genius. |
| 0:45.8 | This is Two Minute Black History, What You Didn't Learn in School. |
| 1:01.5 | Traveling is an anxious experience for many of us, especially due to a long history of anti-blackness. |
| 1:06.7 | Staying safe was crucial for our ancestors, and here's how they did it. |
| 1:13.2 | During the Green Book era, dining while traveling while black wasn't easy. |
| 1:24.2 | With as much innovation as usual, our people prepared food before leaving home, storing lunches in empty shoe boxes to bring on road trips. |
| 1:29.5 | They usually featured classics like fried chicken, mac and cheese and a slice of pound cake. |
| 1:37.5 | Our folks never left home without the life-saving travel kit known as the Jim Crow Travel Kit. |
| 1:43.0 | It contained essential items like a small stove and portable table since many businesses refused to serve black customers and |
| 1:45.7 | overalls for protection from animal waste and tobacco that white people left on the train seat. |
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