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The Negro Motorist Green Book, editions of 1940, 1949 and 1955, read (archive.org full texts and the Smithsonian transcription)
Roseland has no Green Book listing in any edition searched, and the test prints whole because the row it tests was segregated ground. The editions of 1940, 1949 and 1955 were read for the town: no Roseland heading, no Roseland house. The county's listings are South Bend's, at pointer: a restaurant, Smoke's Place, at 492 Chapin Street in 1940 and 432 South Chapin in the later editions — the number pair printing whole — and tourist homes, Mrs. Sadia Graves's in 1940 and William Bailey's at 526 Center Avenue in 1955. The negative's edge prints with it: three further editions — 1951, 1957 and 1959 — stand located in the Schomburg collection's digital run but were not read page by page, and the gap stands in the note. What the searched editions establish is the shape of the corridor's welcome in the row's founding decades: a Black motorist on U.S. 31 in 1955 was directed to South Bend's west side, not to any house in Roseland — the town's absence from the book is itself the period's record, stated at the editions' strength.