Booker T. Motel

Booker T. Motel is a Tennessee historical marker in Gibson County.

607 W Main Street, Humboldt, Tennessee 37343

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Built in 1854, the Booker T. Motel represented a safe place for African American travelers during the era of legalized segregation. Featured in Ebony, the motel was advertised in the Green Book, a national African American travel guide. In its heyday, the motel included a cafe and beauty show. The cafe became an important African American-owned barbecue operation where guests enjoyed a brief respite from he degradations of the Jim Crow era. Continued. Initially operated by Oscar and Annie Mae Collins, Alfred and Velva Pulliam later ran the motel and were famous for pit barbecue and sauce. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places on July 25, 2018, a red and white painted metal motel sign inside a plain wooden from that reads [Booker T. Motel COLORED Humboldt, Tenn.] is a part of the National African American Museum's Memorabilia and Ephemera-Advertisements.

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Historical maps covering this location

1838 · Kentucky (T.G. Bradford, 1838) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1844 · Kentucky (H. S. Tanner, 1844) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1848 · United States. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1862 · Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1864 · Kentucky And Tennessee (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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