The legacy of the Green Book lives on in a generation that outlived Jim Crow.
Explore the history of the Green Book during a screening of THE GREEN BOOK: GUIDE TO FREEDOM and join Reverend Damon Lynch, Jr., Sherry Glover Thompson and Angenita Brown as they share their own stories growing up in the era of institutionalized segregation and how the Green Book became a local passport to freedom.
5:30 p.m. Doors open
6 p.m. Screening of The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
7 p.m. Conversation with Reverend Damon Lynch, Jr., Sherry Glover Thompson and Angenita Brown, moderated by Trudy Gaba
About the film
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom - Run time: 51 minutes
In the 1930s, a Black postal carrier from Harlem named Victor Green published a book that was part travel guide and part survival guide. It was called The Negro Motorist Green Book, and it helped African Americans navigate safe passage across America well into the 1960s. Explore some of the segregated nation’s safe havens and notorious “sundown towns” and witness stories of struggle and indignity as well as opportunity and triumph.
Image credit: Family posed inside car, ca. 1950. Gift of Princetta R. Newman, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
