3. Unpacking the Green Book at The Museum of Arts & Design

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The Museum of Arts and Design has done a deep-dive into the history of The Negro Motorist Green Book, with the exhibit, Derrick Adams: Sanctuary (still on view) and the new exhibition, Unpacking the Green Book: Travel and Segregation in Jim Crow America opening this month. The road-trippers guide for black Americans was published by New York postal worker, Victor Hugo Green. The guide, which was used from 1936 to 1967, listed services where black travelers were welcome in the age of “sundown towns, segregation, and the Civil Rights Movement.”

Using digitized copies of The Green Book, interactive maps that explore travel destinations, and film excerpts from an upcoming documentary project, the exhibition explores not only travel and segregation, but also racial oppression in the U.S. during the 20th and 21st centuries. Unpacking the Green Book: Travel and Segregation in Jim Crow America will be on view from March 1 to April 8, 2018 at the Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle.