THE LEGACY OF "THE GREEN BOOK"

While the Oscar-winning film starring Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen introduced to many Americans, this motorist guide was used for years by black motorists as they headed out on the road. At a time when segregation still gripped many parts of the country, people of color used the book to identify welcoming, “color-blind” hotels, restaurants, drugstores and even doctors when they left their hometowns.the Green Book

Our guest speaker, , is currently a non-resident fellow at the Hutchins Center at Harvard University with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Her work has been featured in and over 40 other media outlets. In writing her book, , Taylor drove approximately 50,000 miles, visiting over 4,000 of the 10,000 Green Book businesses in her database.Candacy TaylorThe New York Times, The Wall St. Journal, Newsweek, PBS Newshour, BBC, The Guardian UK, NPR, The AtlanticOverground Railroad

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See the video about her .series is in memory of Ilene Weinreb, the former Mayor of Hayward. Sharing Dreams here

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