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Join us for an enlightening author talk with Candacy Taylor as she discusses her New York Times Notable Book, Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America.
Join us for an insightful discussion about The Green Book with Candacy Taylor and Vann R. Newkirk II. This program is supported by the DC Public Library Foundation and 50 copies of the book have been donated for attendees in need. Learn more about the author and the exhibit below.
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Candacy Taylor is the leading Green Book expert in the country. She is an award-winning cultural documentarian, and the author of the best-selling book, Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America. Overground Railroad made the New York Times’ most notable books of the year, Oprah Magazine’s top 26 travel books, and National Geographic’s top 10 list of books by women.
Taylor was a fellow at the Hutchins Center at Harvard University under the direction of Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. She has curated The Negro Motorist Green Book, a multimedia exhibition that has toured 14 US museums by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) from 2020 to 2025.
Her projects have been commissioned and funded by the Library of Congress, The National Endowment for the Humanities, National Geographic, The National Park Service, the National Trust, The American Council of Learned Societies, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Her work has been featured in over 80 media outlets, including The Atlantic, CBS Sunday Morning, The Economist, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Fortune Magazine, Time Magazine, and Viceland.
Taylor lives in Chicago.
Meet the Conversation PartnerVann R. Newkirk II is a senior editor at the Atlantic, and the host and co-creator of the Peabody-award-winning podcast Floodlines. Newkirk was a 2022 Andrew Carnegie fellow, and was a 2020 James Beard Award Finalist, a 2020 11th Hour Fellow at New America, and a 2018 recipient of the American Society of Magazine Editors's ASME Next Award. In 2024, Newkirk was named Journalist of the Year by the Washington Association of Black Journalists.
The Negro Motorist Green Book, an exhibition developed by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration with award-winning author, photographer and cultural documentarian, Candacy Taylor, offers an immersive look at the reality of travel for African Americans in mid-century America and how the annual guide served as an indispensable resource for the nation’s rising African American middle class and evidence of a vibrant business class. The companion exhibition, The Green Book in D.C.: “A Particular Place for Particular People,” was produced by DC Public Library to complement the national, traveling exhibition by taking a deep dive into the stories of the more than 150 businesses and organizations right here in the District that were featured in The Green Book. A capsule version of this local history exhibit will be available at eight neighborhood libraries around D.C.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Exhibit | Black History Month | Author Talk |
