. Thus, many of what would change in the future simply had not happened yet. Many places and people in both the South and the North did not have anything to allow colored people to tour. Furthermore, this was something that was discovered when using the Mapping Project. When using the \u201cNavigating the Green Book\u201d tool I tried to find something that overlapped my current map of the American Guide Tour. This could not be done as there were no routes that overlapped my mapped tour. This is further demonstrated in the picture below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The image shows two maps overlapped. One with green dots\nshows accommodations for colored people while the other shows my personal\nmapped tour. As you can see it is not a matter of how people would have\nexperienced it differently. It\u2019s that colored people would not have gotten to experience\nit at all. The tour that I had chosen from the New York Guide gave a route that\nshowed amazing history of the area and other cultural phenomena. But due to the\nperiod, men and women of color would not be able to do what other people could.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n When\nactually looking at the mapping of the New York tour, I noticed a fundamental difference\nbetween how the Guide portrayed the US. The guide would often label things with\npicturesque description. Using things that many could view as inspiring or\nbeautiful. This was completely by design when creating the series. Going back\nto what was discussed about the American Guide, one must remember why it was\nmade. It was meant to help showcase the \u201c \u201ctrue\u201d America to its people\u201d <\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span>. This\nof course was sacrificing the representation of what Americans were feeling at the\ntime. This is especially poignant when comparing many of the routes to the\nthousands who migrated west for work. These guides needed to try and give hope\nto American and if it had shown the unemployment and the desperation that was\nthe migration in the west it would have had the opposite effect. My personal\nmapping tour showed many luxurious places filled with mansions or economic\nsuccess. This was in stark contrast to what was being felt but was none the\nless necessary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 With this mapping project one can begin to understand what was being done to help the overall feeling of the depression; while also showing how people truly felt. This idea is best shown in the comparison image. The lack accommodation shows how there was still a very long way to go in terms of civil rights. With the American Guide and its wording throughout the mapping shows how the FWP was trying to reinvigorate the American People. Mapping gives these opportunities by showing physical primary sources that can be traced throughout history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mapped Tour: https:\/\/uploads.knightlab.com\/storymapjs\/be6a50a50d5982225a5712534d8d24ad\/placeholder\/index.html<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The tours that were created in the American Guide Series were meant to help Americans \u201crediscover America.\u201d I helped people from the 1930\u2019s not only navigate the US but also learn much about its history, folk lore, and culture. 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