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In Green Book, the characters follow the eponymous "Guide for Negro Motorists" to hotels that will accept blacks in Jim Crow South. These hotels are consistently portrayed as ramshackle and filthy. Is this depiction of accommodations for black travelers accurate?

by /u/TheJucheisLoose in /r/AskHistorians

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