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DOI10.3386/w26819
来源IDWorking Paper 26819
The Green Books and the Geography of Segregation in Public Accommodations
Lisa D. Cook; Maggie E.C. Jones; David Rosé; Trevon D. Logan
发表日期2020-03-09
出版年2020
语种英语
摘要Jim Crow segregated African Americans and whites by law and practice. 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. We digitize the Negro Motorist Green Books, important historical travel guides aimed at helping African Americans navigate segregation in the pre-Civil Rights Act United States. We create a novel panel dataset that contains precise geocoded locations of over 4,000 unique businesses that provided non-discriminatory service to African American patrons between 1938 and 1966. Our analysis reveals several new facts about discrimination in public accommodations that contribute to the broader literature on racial segregation. First, the largest number of Green Book establishments were found in the Northeast, while the lowest number were found in the West. The Midwest had the highest number of Green Book establishments per black resident and the South had the lowest. Second, we combine our Green Book estimates with newly digitized county-level estimates of hotels to generate the share of non-discriminatory formal accommodations. Again, the Northeast had the highest share of non-discriminatory accommodations, with the South following closely behind. Third, for Green Book establishments located in cities for which the Home Owner’s Loan Corporation (HOLC) drew residential security maps, the vast majority (nearly 70 percent) are located in the lowest-grade, redlined neighborhoods. Finally, Green Book presence tends to correlate positively with measures of material well-being and economic activity.
主题Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Industrial Organization ; Industry Studies ; History ; Labor and Health History ; Other History
URLhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w26819
来源智库National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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Lisa D. Cook,Maggie E.C. Jones,David Rosé,et al. The Green Books and the Geography of Segregation in Public Accommodations. 2020.
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