[BUSINESS]. Travel Guide of Negro Hotels and Guest Houses. Published by Afro-American Newspapers of Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia, Newark, and Richmond, [ca 1942].
1 sheet folded to 4 1/4 x 8 1/2 in. pamphlet (wear consistent with age and use, soiling and creasing throughout, ink stamp and penciled markings). Provenance: Estate of African American photographer, Johnnie R. Crump (1905-1975) (ink stamp on back of guide).
Featuring a travel map compiled by the Afro Travel Bureau and a state by state listing of hotels and guest houses East of the Mississippi River. Also with a listing of YMCAs and YWCAs located throughout the US and large advertisement section.
Johnnie Crump, a self-taught photographer, documented the lives of Black subjects in Mississippi under segregation during the 1940s-1950s. Crump, who was friends with Medgar Evers, was very involved in the Civil Rights movement and was a member of the NAACP along with his wife Clara.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
Property from a 35-Year Collection from the Southern United States