"The Green Book: NC Travels Down Memory Lane" Panel Discussion

The virtual discussion, “NC Travels Down Memory Lane,” will begin with an overview of “The Green Book’s” contribution to Americans by Angela Thorpe, director of the North Carolina African American Heritage Commission. Presenters include: Dr. State Alexander, executive assistant to the President and Vice President for Communications and Public Relations at Livingstone College; Surluta B. Anthony, Monroe, N.C. town council member, community activist and child advocate; Mary Ponds, retired educator who was the first woman and first African-American mayor of Granite Quarry, N.C., a predominately white community that has strong historical ties to the Ku Klux Klan; and Rev. Dr. T. Anthony Spearman, an African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church leader, who is currently serving as president of the North Carolina NAACP. Dr. Da’Tarvia Parrish, chair of the History and Political Science Department at Livingstone College, will guide the evening’s conversation as the moderator.
The Negro Motorist Green Book, originated and published by Victor Hugo Green between 1936-1966, helped African Americans move through segregated and hostile spaces during the Jim Crow era. The publication directed Black travelers to safe “oasis spaces” as they visited family, conducted business, followed job opportunities, or vacationed. A guide and resistance tool, “The Green Book” reveals a crucial network that allowed African American communities to survive during a turbulent period in North Carolina, and America.
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