Candacy Taylor is a photographer and cultural historian. She has documented the architecture of buildings listed in The Negro Motorist Green Book. Her book, Overground Railroad: The Green Book & the Roots of Black Travel in America, explored the legacy of the Green Book. An adaptation of Overground Railroad for young adult readers won the Carter G. Woodson Book Award in 2023.
She turned her master's degree thesis into a coffee table book, Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress, an oral history and photography book of interviews with women over 50 who had each worked as waitresses for many decades.
Taylor curated an exhibit about the Green Book for the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum.
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- "Carter G. Woodson Book Award and Honor Winners". National Council for the Social Studies. Retrieved December 20, 2024.
- Farabee, M., & . (2009, Oct 30). The real flos and alices of the world; america's diner waitresses are the stars of candacy taylor's new coffee table book, 'counter culture.'. Los Angeles Times Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/real-flos-alices-world-americas-diner-waitresses/docview/422298934/se-2
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