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The Green Book: Guide to Freedom - Film Screening

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Nov 12

The Green Book: Guide to Freedom - Film Screening

Learn what it meant to "travel while Black" during the age of Civil Rights. (This is NOT a screening of the Motion Picture "Green Book")

By Greater Kansas City Black History Study Group

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Tue, November 12, 2019, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM CST

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Bruce R Watkins Cultural Center 3700 Blue Parkway Kansas City, MO 64130

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Please join the Study Group in partnership with the National Archives and American Jazz Museum at the Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Center for a screening of the Smithsonian Channel film "The Green Book: Guide to Freedom."

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.

This event is free, but seating is limited. You must RSVP here at Eventbrite.

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  • United States Events
  • Missouri Events
  • Things to do in Kansas City, MO
  • Kansas City Screenings
  • Kansas City Family & Education Screenings
  • #history
  • #travel
  • #civil_rights
  • #african_american__history
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