A review by boggremlin
Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy Taylor

4.0

A history of Black physical and social movement across the United States, functioning in many ways as a series of micro-histories of elements of civil rights in America. The book is at times disjointed and repetitive, switching between academic history and personal history or repeating information introduced in earlier chapters, as though the work was originally published as a series of essays rather than a complete manuscript.

The overall work Taylor has done to preserve the Green Book and the impact of segregation, Jim Crow laws, and racism on the Black experience is astounding.