Vacationing with Green Book

Contributed Date and Time: Thursday, August 15, 2024 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Location: 50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 Event Type: Panel Discussion, Film Screenings Cost: Free The legacy of the Green Book lives on in a generation that outlived Jim Crow. Explore the history of the Green Book during a screening of THE GREEN BOOK: GUIDE TO FREEDOM and join Reverend Damon Lynch, Jr. (Pastor Emeritus, New Jerusalem Baptist Church), Sherry Glover Thompson (daughter of former King Records executive Henry Glover) and Angenita Brown (PhD, Chief of Staff, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center) as they share their own stories growing up in the era of institutionalized segregation and how the Green Book became a local passport to freedom. 5:30 p.m. Doors open 6 p.m. Screening of The Green Book: Guide to Freedom 7 p.m. Conversation with Reverend Damon Lynch, Jr., Sherry Glover Thompson and Angenita Brown, moderated by Trudy Gaba About the film: The Green Book: Guide to Freedom – Run time: 51 minutes 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...