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The Negro Motorist Green Book Events and Programs

September 28, 2022

Upcoming Events and Programs for

The Negro Motorist Green Book Exhibition


Saturday, October 15, 2022

Friends of the Irving Museum Sneak Peek and Pasta Dinner

Food served 5:30 – 7 p.m.

Exhibition open 5:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Get your tickets here!


Sunday, October 16, 2022

Exhibition Grand Opening

12 – 4 p.m.

Free Museum admission


Saturday, October 16, 2022 through January 8, 2023

The Irving Black Arts Council (IBAC) exhibition "A Local Green Book" is on display at IAM and runs concurrently with the Green Book Exhibition

Regular Museum Hours


This multi-media presentation will feature selected works of the late photographers R.C. Hickman and Calvin Littlejohn. From the cameras of these legendary gentlemen, visitors will observe life in the Black Dallas community during segregation, the Jim Crow era and in the segregated military. Other pictures and video will be presented that report the Bear Creek community’s experience.


This special programming is offered in collaboration with the City of Irving and will enhance patrons’ understanding of the period which ran from the 1920s to the 1960s. Insights will be gained into the challenges and hardships the Black community encountered in travel, education, entertainment, and services at a time of “so-called separate but equal."


Sunday, October 16, 2022 – Sunday, January 8, 2023

Free Museum Admission Every Sunday

Open 12 – 4 p.m.


Thursday, November 3, 2022

Film Screening “The Green Book: Guide to Freedom”

7 p.m. (in auditorium)

Free event

See how The Negro Motorist Green Book helped African Americans navigate the roads of a segregated nation.


Saturday, November 5, 2022

Remembering Black Dallas, Green Book Bus Tour

DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Free Event

This bus tour takes travelers around the often-hidden history of Black Dallas. A tour guide will point out the sites, sights, and stories of Dallas' African American history, including locations of Green Book sites, Freedman Towns, and other places of interest. Tour will end at the Green Book exhibition at Irving Archives and Museum.


Sunday, November 6, 2022

Irving Black Arts Council Panel Discussion

2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Free Event

The Irving Black Arts Council will host a facilitated panel discussion of Bear Creek, Dallas and Fort Worth residents who lived during the Jim Crow era.


The star-studded panel will be headlined by the Honorable Judge L. Clifford Davis (retired) and and Ms. Opal Lee, Grandmother of Juneteenth, along with three other notable local citizens who resided in the area during the segregation and Jim Crow era. Rounding out the panel will be Mrs. Imogene W. Rogers from the Bear Creek community in Irving, Texas, Mrs. Gloria O. Sights from the Bear Creek community in Irving, Texas and Dallas, Texas and Ms. Mary Ann Turner Blackmon from the Lake Dallas area of Dallas, Texas. The panel discussion will include personal stories from each of the participants and a period for questions and answers. WATCH THE RECORDING HERE!


Saturday, November 12, 2022

Scholar’s Talk with Dr. William Dulaney Event is free

2 p.m.

Join us for A Scholar’s talk about the Green Book with Dr. W. Marvin Dulaney. Dr. Dulaney is President of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the nation’s oldest African American historical association and the founders of Black History Month. For the past two years, he has also served as Deputy Director and Chief Operations Officer for the Dallas African American Museum. He is also an Associate Professor of History Emeritus, former Interim Director of the Center for African American Studies, and the former Chair of the Department of History at the University of Texas, Arlington. Dr. Dulaney has published and edited four books and is currently completing a history of African Americans in Dallas for Texas A & M University Press.


Saturday, December 10, 2022

Remembering Black Dallas, Green Book Bus Tour

DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Free Event

This bus tour takes travelers around the often-hidden history of Black Dallas. A tour guide will point out the sites, sights, and stories of Dallas' African American history, including locations of Green Book sites, Freedman Towns, and other places of interest. Tour will end at the Green Book exhibition at Irving Archives and Museum.


Saturday, December 17, 2022

Remembering Black Dallas, Green Book Bus Tour

DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Free Event

This bus tour takes travelers around the often-hidden history of Black Dallas. A tour guide will point out the sites, sights, and stories of Dallas' African American history, including locations of Green Book sites, Freedman Towns, and other places of interest. Tour will end at the Green Book exhibition at Irving Archives and Museum.


Wednesday, January 4, 2022

Virtual screening of “The Green Book: Guide to Freedom”

7 p.m.

See how The Negro Motorist Green Book helped African Americans navigate the roads of a segregated nation.

Send an email to chulfish@cityofirving.org to register and receive the link to the virtual screening.


Saturday, January 7, 2022

Scholar’s Talk with Leslie Wolfenden

2 p.m.

Join us for A Scholar’s talk about the Green Book and HBCUs with Leslie Wolfenden. Leslie Wolfenden is the Historic Resources Survey Coordinator for the Texas Historical Commission where she manages the Historic Texas Highways and Historic Resources Survey programs. Leslie has a Master’s in Historic Preservation, a Bachelor’s in Architecture from the University of Texas system. THC’s Historic Resources Survey Coordinator Leslie Wolfenden has been researching and documenting over 780 sites based on 34 African American travel guides that includes 43 Texas communities.


Sunday, January 8, 2022

Last day of the exhibition

12 – 4 p.m.


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