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The Negro Motorist Green Book Exhibit

From December 16, 2023 through March 10, 2024
  • Petersen Automotive Museum, 6060 Wilshire Blvd., Miracle Mile
Admission $10.95 (children) - $17.95 (adults)
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A black and white image shows two adults and a young girl leaning against a mid-20th century car.
Mother, father and child stand by a car in 1948.
(© Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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Smithsonian Institution, Nationa)

The museum partners with the Smithsonian Institution for its newest exhibition, The Negro Motorist Green Book, which offers an immersive look at how the guide served as “the bible of Black travel during Jim Crow” and what Black American travelers had to endure in mid-century America. The installation opens in the Armand Hammer Foundation Gallery.