Victor Hugo Green was an African American postal employee and travel writer from Harlem, New York City, who developed, compiled, and wrote what became known as
The Green Book, a seminal travel guide for African Americans in the United States. He was also a veteran of World War I who served in the US Air Force. He died in 1960.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. An Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored or co-authored twenty-one books and created fifteen documentary films, including
Wonders of theAfrican World,
Faces of America, and
Finding Your Roots, his groundbreaking genealogy series now in its third season on PBS. Having written for such leading publications as
The New Yorker,
The New York Times, and
Time, Professor Gates now serves as chairman of
TheRoot.com, a daily online magazine he co-founded in 2008, while overseeing the Oxford African American Studies Center. He was named to
Time's 25 Most Influential Americans list in 1997, to
Ebony's Power 150 list in 2009, and to
Ebony's Power 100 list in 2010 and 2012.
