In tandem with The Negro Motorist Inexperienced Guide exhibition on view at Holocaust Museum Houston (HMH; 5401 Caroline Avenue, Houston, TX 77004) Sept. 1 – Nov. 26, 2023, the Museum will host two free public lectures highlighting Houston’s connection to the indispensable useful resource for Black vacationers in mid-century America.
On Thursday, Sept. 7 at 6:30 p.m., historians Leslie Wolfenden and Daniele Rose Dixon will current their analysis into African American Journey Information Websites in Texas together with lodges, eating places, barber retailers and different companies that welcomed Black vacationers throughout an period of segregation and Jim Crow legal guidelines and violence.
This program will highlight websites primarily in and round Houston, and their historic impression on the Black expertise of South-East Texas. By way of their analysis, 115 former Black journey websites have been recognized in Houston, with 13 websites “nonetheless standing” and eight of these famous in The Inexperienced Guide.
Alfred Barnaby shall be in attendance; impressed by a TV sequence.
“Watching ‘Lovecraft Nation’ was my first publicity to sunset cities,” stated Barnaby. “That’s when it hit me simply how vital the Inexperienced Guide was to Black individuals’s survival again within the day.”
On Tuesday, Oct. 10 at 6:30 p.m., Dr. Lindsay Gary, creator of The New Purple Guide: A Information to 50 of Houston’s Black Historic and Cultural Websites, will focus on the analysis strategies and practices used to create The New Purple Guide, along with challenges that have been confronted and the impression of the publication. She is going to spotlight its connection to The Purple Guide of 1915 and the function texts have performed up to now and may play sooner or later in preserving the legacy of Black historic and cultural websites.
“I noticed Dr. Gary converse a few instances earlier than; she’s dynamic,” stated Assata Newsome. “I’ll be bringing my whole crew with me to listen to her break down our historical past on the HMH. I’m telling all my peeps to do the identical.”
On view on the HMH, The Negro Motorist Inexperienced Guide consists of artifacts, photographs and firsthand accounts to convey not solely the hazard confronted by Black vacationers but additionally the resilience and innovation of Blacks refusing to let worry win. The Negro Motorist Inexperienced Guide was created by the Smithsonian Establishment Touring Exhibition Service in collaboration with Candacy Taylor and made potential by means of the beneficiant assist of ExxonMobil. Be taught extra in regards to the exhibit and the audio system at hmh.org/Roadmap, hmh.org/RedBook and/or hmh.org/tickets.
