Ivanna Bass Caldera
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TPR
The San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum, or SAAACAM, has one of the only Green Book Bus Tours in the nation. "The Negro Motorist Greenbook" was created by Victor H. Green in the 1930s to provide safe spaces for Black travelers to visit when segregation and violence against Black people was rampant nationwide. That specific book featured over 80 locations in San Antonio.
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