By now, you've undoubtedly heard of "The Green Book" - and by that, I don't just mean the film, I mean the actual guidebook that helped African Americans literally and figuratively navigate Jim Crow America. But while this important part of American history is actively being written, little more than a few lines have ever been dedicated to the "mother" of the Green Book, Alma Duke Green. Her life and her contributions to the Green Book were and still are obscured by the double burden of racism and sexism, and primary source material on her is correspondingly scarce. But after seeing Alma's name briefly mentioned in an article, I began doing research on her to see what I could find. It turned out to be a glorious rabbit hole in which I was immediately immersed in following a paper trail that enabled me to begin to sketch out this remarkable woman. I had hoped that a mainstream magazine might be interested in her story, but - alas - though I was told more than once it was a great story, not a single outlet I contacted would publish it. So, as I often do, I have published it on my blog, and hope that it will help to begin the writing of a new narrative of the Green Book that includes its "mother." https://abitofhistoryblog.com/2019/03/25/the-mother-of-the-green-book-ignored-by-history/ Image of Alma Duke Green, pictured in the 1961 edition of “The Green Book” (courtesy New York Public Library). #WomensHistoryMonth #WriteAboutWomen #TheGreenBook #AlmaDukeGreen https://www.instagram.com/victoriamartinezwriter/p/BveeKolgccM/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=z5g648hegwmr