You are here: Home / Community Assets Search / Travelling While Black: The Green Book Project

Travelling While Black: The Green Book Project

The project is planned for Black History Month (February) 2019. It will utilize seven components to illustrate, educate, and allow visitors to vicariously experience discrimination and racism. The planned components are: 1) two full-size diorama displays, 2) a video history of travel-related discrimination experienced by Rochester residents, 3) an exhibit of Floyd Cooper’s art, 4) a personal appearance by Floyd Cooper, 5) commercially-produced videos relating to The Green Book, 6) interactive digital displays, and 7) the history of racism in Rochester, Minnesota.

This project is in Archive Phase.

  • Please scroll the following to view Beam's understanding of the project's strategy, indicators, expected results, and monitored metrics.
  • Please click this Link to get to the mainline view of the project.

Collaborators, Project Type, Impacts, Related Projects

 

Collaborators 

Lead Organization: History Center of Olmsted County

Contact: Patricia Carlson ; Email: TBD ; Phone: TBD

Known/Likely Collaborators: Diversity Council ; History Center of Olmsted County

Potential Collaborators:

Related Projects

Impacts 

Major Impact: 

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: Arts & Culture, Diversity and Inclusion, Heritage Preservation

Level 2:

DMC Impacts:

Community Health Impacts:

Type of Project

Special  

 

 

 

Strategy
Unknown

 

Expected Results

Project Objectives

In spite of the progress that has been made on racial justice in the last 75 years, racism is still a divisive force in this country. The Green Book Project is intended to tell the story of one aspect of this discrimination, and raise awareness of the injustice endured by people of color in the not-so-distant past. The goal is to promote racial learning, understanding, and inclusion in our community and schools. The target audience is the entire population of the greater Rochester, Minnesota area.

 

 

Metrics
Unknown

 

Key reports on: Travelling While Black: The Green Book Project

History Center to present Traveling While Black (April 23, 2019)

The “Traveling While Black” exhibit being developed by the History Center of Olmsted County will chronicle the challenges faced by black motorists prior to the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

Read more ...


 

Last modified by support on 2021/09/05
Created by support on 2018/01/20

 

 

 

Site Information
Project Phase Definitions
The following defines the various project phases:
  1. Available - a product, program or service is in production
  2. Develop - program or application is being developed
  3. Plan - idea is solid, stakeholders are identified, and there is strong commitment to go forward from all parties.
  4. Concept Phase - idea scoped out with enough details to give an early sizing and/or to build a proof of concept
    demonstration
  5. Pre-concept Phase - an early idea or a requirement.
About Beam

Community Beam (dmcbeam.org) is a registry of private and public resources (organizations, projects, initiatives, programs) that underpin economic and social developments of greater Rochester:

  • For the commercial sector, we tend to register startup activities (new companies and new commercial projects) that bring diversification and high-impact opportunities to the area.
  • For the non-profit sector, we wish to shine light on all the organizations and services that otherwise labor under relative obscurity.
  • Our hope is that dmcbeam.org will encourage cross-sector collaborations and creative solutions.

While there are a number of registries in the community, dmcbeam.org's  distinct value is to pilot a database with a data structure and categorizations that answer the questions such as: What organizations or projects/programs in our community that have purported relevance with some of the over-arching focuses put forward by initiatives such as DMC, J2G and Health Improvements?

This database could be used as one of the ways to explore the capacities of the community. If you are someone on an exploratory journey to learn about the greater Rochester community. dmcbeam.org could be an interesting first step.

Links to Beam sub-sites 
Sample of Beam sub-sites: