Online Story Time with The Northwest African American Museum
Saturday April 23, 2022, 1:00 PM
This activity is pre-recorded and will air on NAAM’s YouTube. FREE EVENT
Join us for an interactive online Story Time with guest readers from the Northwest African American Museum (NAAM). Participants will read along with a story selection from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, creators of the exhibition The Negro Motorist Green Book. The story Ruth and The Green Book was written by playwright Calvin Alexander Ramsey with poet Gwen Strauss and will delight young readers and listeners of all ages.
This beautifully illustrated story set in the 1950s is told through a child’s viewpoint to understand the historical importance of The Green Book and how it helped African Americans travel safely across the nation.
More Green Book reading opportunities:
Seattle Public Library’s (SPL) Downtown and Central District/Douglass-Truth branches have dedicated shelf space to Ruth and The Green Book and other Green Book-related reading. Click here for SPL’s Green Book recommended reading list!
SPL’s Douglass-Truth branch will host a Black Heritage Society display case exhibit about The Green Book’s local and national history, March – June 2022.
More great reads: Download the Smithsonian Institution’s related reading and resource lists.
The Northwest African American Museum in partnership with the Black Heritage Society will give away copies of Ruth and the Green Book through outreach programs.
The Negro Motorist Green Book was created by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration with Candacy Taylor and made possible through the generous support of Exxon Mobil Corporation. This exhibition has been locally supported by ArtsFund, Humanities Washington, and KNKX Public Radio. Public programming for the exhibition is supported by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
