Dance party at DC library held to welcome new ‘Green Book’ exhibit

With music and dancing, D.C.’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library kicked off the opening of a new lobby exhibit on “The Negro Motorist Green Book” — the pre-civil rights guidebook for African American families to find safe spaces during the era of segregation.

The library, collaborating with the African American Music Association, chose to celebrate the exhibit opening with a dance party on the library’s top floor, saluting “Teenarama Dance Party” — a historic D.C. TV program.