(BUSINESS HOTELS) The New Negro Traveler and Conventioneer

Sale 2663 - Lot 94

Price Realized: $ 625

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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

(BUSINESS--HOTELS.) The New Negro Traveler and Conventioneer. 38, [2] pages including illustrated wrappers, 11 x 8½ inches; minor wear. Chicago, IL: Travelers Research Publishing, May 1969

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Includes coverage of the "Hotel-Motel, Restaurant, and Tavern World." This magazine launched in 1942 as "The Negro Traveler," as a product of the Green Book era, but continued for years after the Civil Rights Act. This issue features spotlights on travel in San Francisco, Trinidad, and Jamaica, a calendar of "Negro Conventions for 1969," a hotel directory, "places we recommend for a good time" in New York and Cleveland, and a discussion of the Afro-American Literature classes then becoming popular in college curricula. We find no other examples at auction.