Described by former NAACP President Julian Bond as "one of the survival tools of segregated life,"[25] The Negro Motorist Green Book (at times titled The Negro Traveler's Green Book or The Negro Motorist Green-Book, and commonly referred to simply as the "Green Book") was an annual, segregation-era guidebook for African American motorists, published by New York travel agent and former Hackensack, New Jersey, letter carrier Victor H. Green.[25] It was published in the United States from 1936 to 1966, during the Jim Crow era, when discrimination against non-whites was widespread.[26]