{"id":676,"date":"2025-02-10T00:33:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T05:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dsi.mtsu.edu\/places\/?page_id=676"},"modified":"2025-05-15T15:58:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T20:58:02","slug":"project-overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dsi.mtsu.edu\/places\/project-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\" style=\"min-height:315px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-89\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/dsi.mtsu.edu\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2.jpg\" style=\"object-position:50% 80%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"50% 80%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dsi.mtsu.edu\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dsi.mtsu.edu\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dsi.mtsu.edu\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2-768x518.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-black-background-color has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\">Project Overview<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\".entry-content {padding-left: 6%; padding-right: 7%;}\">Places, Perspectives: African American Community-building in Tennessee, 1860-1920 connects early Black communities, both in cities and in rural areas, to current Tennessee geography. The purpose of this project is to bring these once-vibrant communities to life by filling out the historical record with the names of those who built them and allowing us to visualize the historic Tennessee landscape. Photographs and documentation of extant buildings as well as those we have lost can be geo-located using primary source evidence. While a small percentage of Black churches, schools, and business districts in Tennessee are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and some are included in the National Trust for Historic Preservation\u2019s documentation of Rosenwald Schools in the southern United States, there are many, especially isolated rural churches, former school and lodge buildings, and small businesses in towns and neighborhoods, for which no other public digital record exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Project Team<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The project team wishes to thank our <a href=\"https:\/\/dsi.mtsu.edu\/places\/community-partners\/\">community partners<\/a> (historians, archivists, librarians, and museum professionals) who enthusiastically shared their knowledge of the history of their communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zada Law, Director, Fullerton Laboratory for Spatial Technology, Department of Geosciences, Middle Tennessee State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Susan Knowles, Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ken Middleton (ken.middleton@mtsu.edu) James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Walker Library Staff<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Chelsea Barranger, Graduate Assistant, Walker Library<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shabnam Hosseinzadeh, Web Developer, Walker Library<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keneisha Mosley, Library Assistant, Research, Instruction, and Liaison Services, Walker Library<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Denise Quintel, Discovery Services Librarian, Walker Library<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robert Spurlin, Freelance Web Developer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amy York, Web Design Librarian, Walker Library<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Us<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Please contact Ken Middleton (ken.middleton@mtsu.edu) if you have questions about this project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Places, Perspectives: African American Community-building in Tennessee, 1860-1920 connects early Black communities, both in cities and in rural areas, to current Tennessee geography. The purpose of this project is to bring these once-vibrant communities to life by filling out the historical record with the names of those who built them and allowing us to visualize&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dsi.mtsu.edu\/places\/project-overview\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Project Overview<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-676","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsi.mtsu.edu\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsi.mtsu.edu\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsi.mtsu.edu\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsi.mtsu.edu\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsi.mtsu.edu\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/dsi.mtsu.edu\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"https:\/\/dsi.mtsu.edu\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/676\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsi.mtsu.edu\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}