Lara Kelland and her students created a walking tour over Mill Creek, St. Louis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To inform of the history of African Americans and the damage of the renewal project to Mill Creek. It also describes in a few stories about poverty for African Americans in the St. Louis area. During this point there was segregation and racism. Safe to say it was hard for most African Americans to get by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anybody could potentially be the intended audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are the project\u2019s conclusions? In other words, what did the researchers learn after all their hard work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It concludes that the renewal project did more harm than good. It masqueraded as a project designed to help the neighborhood rather than subjecting its residents to poverty or displacement. This was quite the opposite effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The site used is called Clio. Clio is an educational website used to guide users to historical and\/or cultural sites in the United States. It used a geographic map of the area to give a walking tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s hard to determine for sure how long this project took, but we could assume at least a couple months long of a project considering this was recently updated on Clio not that long ago. Lara\u2019s account was made also quite recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This project is well informed and holds well with its text. It also uses pictures to give an idea of the conditions or people before 1960s. What buildings and streets they lived in, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This project goes over many places in Mill Creek, and each one had been special to the black community in various ways. However, each site was demolished or replaced. For example, the Pine Street YMCA was not only used for young men to relax using their facilities, but for children to camp outside for an hour every day. Mill Creek had over 20,000 residents displaced or kicked out from their homes. 5,600 housing units, 800 businesses, and 4 churches were also demolished. It is implied that they were kicked from their homes not to improve housing but to demolish these facilities and buildings. This project added context to me as I had never heard of Mill Creek prior to my reading. Probably because I don\u2019t live in the St. Louis area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-Isaac G.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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