The Green Book became "the bible of black travel during Jim Crow", enabling black travelers to find lodgings, businesses, and gas stations that would serve them.
But The Flowers' is a short story by Alice Walker that explores a young girl named Myop's time as a child ending when she discovers the body of a violently murdered man. This story's setting is during the summer on a sharecropper's farm, placing it after the American Civil War.
