This specific tour was made by Lara Kelland, a professor in museum studies and community history. Though each individual site has its own page and creator who were students in her class. The goals of the project are literally listed to “connect people to the variety of sites throughout the city.” Although, it seems it’s also trying to give these institutions of the black community an identity by giving a deeper look and understanding of the influence they had on African Americans. The projects intended audiences seem to be, African Americans, anyone interested in history, tourists, and people that want a new level of understanding of their city. There’s no real overarching conclusion to this work; this is a mass of information about different places that meant something to the black community. There may be some narrative to draw about black people having to have their own institutions to live normally, instead of using the same ones everyone else uses. But in general, there is no real “theme” per say. This project uses two instances of google maps, and a text to speech for any bodies of text. The two google maps give an arial and on the ground view of the site you are looking at. All the different site pages have different start and end dates, but looking as this as one cohesive work, the earliest date is February 2020, and the latest and March 2020. This project’s strengths come from each of the 13 different sites having different pages and people writing about them. You get a heap of information about each specific thing. A weakness this project has is accessibility. If someone can’t walk long distances, or have a car, they’d have to do the tour digitally. Which is possible, but you lose a lot of significance of seeing the place in person and going inside to look around.

I pretty much didn’t know any of the information on this tour, so reading through it gave me a lot of knowledge I didn’t have before. Maybe my lack of knowledge is from not literally living in the city, but I only knew about Harris-Stowe, the rest was new. Even in that case, I learned new facts about the school that I couldn’t have learned without some serious research. I like knowing that my people had a few places to go to and be themselves, or not be ridiculed. Having multiple spots in such a big city with cultural significance to my skin tone gives the city itself a new light in my eyes.