This remarkable study broadens our understanding of black life, leisure, and struggles for equality in twentieth-century America, presents the Green Book as a social movement in response to a crisis in black travel, and makes a compelling case for the need to protect more diverse African American sites that have been heretofore underappreciated., Overground Railroad reorients the narrative of allure surrounding Route 66 in order to account for the grim reality of the violence that black people faced on that old American road., In offering tangible actions readers can take, Taylor has created a valuable document that, like The Green Book itself, serves as a bittersweet handbook of resilience in the face of injustice., Taylor, previously a Harvard fellow, gives the topic the context and meticulous research it deserves, while keeping an eye on current race relations., 'Candacy Taylor not only examines the history of the Green Book, but also dives into what its impact means for Black individuals and families today.' - Bustle. Overground Railroad is an eye-opening, deeply moving social history of American segregation and black migration during the middle years of the 20th century., With passion, conviction, and clarity, Taylor's book unearths a fascinating and true-if not willfully obscured-history of African American activism and entrepreneurship in the United States.

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