Candacy Taylor is an author, photographer, and an award-winning cultural documentarian. She is the author of Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America,[1] which explored the legacy of the Green Book.[2]Overground Railroad made the New York Times'[3] list of notable books of 2020, Oprah Magazine's[4] top 26 travel books, and National Geographic's[5] top 10 list of books by adventurous women. An adaptation of Overground Railroad for young adult readers won the Carter G. Woodson Book Award in 2023.[6]
Taylor was a fellow at the Hutchins Center at Harvard University[8] under the direction of Henry Louis Gates Jr. She curated The Negro Motorist Green Book, a 3,500-square-foot exhibition that has toured 13 US museums as part of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)[9] from 2020 to 2025, including the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum.[10]
Her projects have been commissioned, funded, and archived by the Library of Congress,[11] The National Endowment for the Humanities,[12], National Geographic[13] The National Park Service, the National Trust,[14], the Graham Foundation[15] The American Council of Learned Societies,[16] and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture[17] at the New York Public Library. Her work has been featured in dozens of media outlets[citation needed] including The Atlantic,[citation needed]CBS Sunday Morning,[citation needed]The Economist,[citation needed]The Los Angeles Times,[citation needed]The New York Times,[citation needed]The New Yorker,[citation needed]Newsweek,[citation needed]Fortune Magazine,[citation needed]Time Magazine,[citation needed] and Viceland.[citation needed]
She turned her master's degree thesis at the California College of the Arts into Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress, that featured women 50 and older who had waitressed for up to 60 years.[18]
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