Overground Railroad by Candacy A. Taylor

But it spurred me on to select Taylor's Overground Railroad: The Green Book & Roots of Black Travel in America from my local library's new release shelf. I had no idea what the title meant, and I have not yet had a chance to watch the acclaimed film. you may need it!' - the admonishment often listed on the coverĪbout a year ago a film called Green Book (starring Mahershala Ali, an actor who is lately receiving a lot of well-deserved accolades I thought he was just outstanding in the third season of HBO's True Detective anthology series) was released in theaters. Taylor’s work has been featured in over 50 media outlets including The Atlantic, CBS Sunday Morning, The Guardian UK, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Newsweek, PBS Newshour and The Wall St. and her projects have been commissioned and funded by numerous organizations including, The Library of Congress, National Geographic, The American Council of Learned Societies, The National Endowment for the Humanities, The National Park Service, and The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Taylor was a fellow at the Hutchins Center at Harvard University under the direction of Dr. The exhibition will travel throughout the United States for three years. She is also the curator and content specialist for an exhibition that will be toured by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) starting in June 2020. Taylor is the author of Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America (Abrams Books).

Candacy Taylor is an award-winning author, photographer and cultural documentarian working on a multidisciplinary project based on the Green Book.

Overground Railroad by Candacy A. Taylor