Candacy Taylor says she first discovered “The Negro Motorist Green Book” around 2014 while visiting a museum in Los Angeles. At the time, she’d just started diving into research to develop a Route 66 travel guide.
Before that moment, the New York City-based historian said she had no idea The Green Book existed. She wondered if her family had known about it. So she called her stepbrother.
“Everybody had one. You needed it,” he told her…