The Spaces in Between is a collaborative multi-media project co-created by photographer Sahar Coston-Hardy and architectural and landscape historian Jennifer Reut. Taking as its foundation the decade of work done on Mapping the Green Book, the Spaces in Between documents the individual lives and social and economic networks of Black families from the Green Book and other guides for Black travelers.

Over the last 4 years, we have developed the ideas behind this project, looking not just at places that appeared in the Green Book, but at the ways Black families navigated between them, hence the title, the Spaces in Between (though the title also takes a cue from the way the project never quite fits in to traditional histories of the built environment). 

MGB: THE SPACES IN BETWEEN takes as a given that the regional social networks and means of knowledge and mobility for Black people are significant historical and artistic subjects and this history should be widely available and accessible to the general public in multiple formats.

Please get in touch if you have ideas, sources, or just want to ask a question.

The Mapping the Green Book and the Spaces In Between is grateful for the support provided by the Smithsonian National Museum of History and Culture; Women Photograph; and Chelsea and Adam Thatcher.