Montana in the Green Book

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Between 1936 and 1967, Victor H. Green & Company published "The Negro Motorist Green Book," which offered listings of lodgings, restaurants, service stations, and recreation opportunities for African American travelers.

In 1939, Mrs. M. Stitt’s “tourist home” in Helena was Montana’s first and only entry. From the mid-1950s through mid-1960s, other Montana lodgings advertised in the Green Book included places in Billings, Butte, Helena, Livingston, Missoula, and East Glacier.

Montana hotels’ increased interest in the Green Book after 1955 coincides with the passage of an accommodations non-discrimination law. At the national level, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, at least in theory, made the Green Book unnecessary. The publication ended shortly thereafter."

 

 Link from the Montana Historical Society.