Cinema | ‘The Green Book Chronicles’: Screening and Discussion with Calvin Alexander Ramsey
Where: Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Circle
212-299-7777 Price: $10
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A live-action documentary with animation, The Green Book Chronicles explores the history of Victor Hugo Green’s legendary travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book. The in-progress film is presented at MAD in conjunction with the exhibitions Derrick Adams: Sanctuary and Unpacking the Green Book: Travel and Segregation in Jim Crow America.
Co-produced by Calvin Alexander Ramsey and Becky Wible Searles (director), the film is inspired by Ramsey’s extensive research and creative projects focused on The Negro Motorist Green Book, which was expanded in later years of publication to include international destinations and was renamed The Negro Travelers Green Book. Published between 1936 and 1967 by Harlem-based US Postal Service letter carrier Victor Green, the “Green Book” was a travel guide for African Americans in the days of Jim Crow. It listed the addresses of tourist homes, gas stations, restaurants, beauty parlors, and other establishments that welcomed African Americans during a time when many did not.
Currently in production as a one-hour documentary, The Green Book Chronicles features over 30 live interviews conducted in six locations (New York (NY), Atlanta (GA), Newark (NJ), Birmingham, (AL), Washington (DC), and Myrtle Beach, (SC), stop-motion media, and animation segments that explore a range of personal experiences connected to this little-known Civil Rights–era story.
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