{"id":1832,"date":"2019-11-18T04:57:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T04:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2019-12-05T18:35:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T18:35:36","slug":"mapping-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/mapping\/mapping-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I chose to do Tour #2 from the American Guide issue “Colorado: The Highest State”. It provides a detailed trip between Sterling, Colorado and the Continental Divide at Muddy Pass, Colorado. I chose it because Colorado has some of the most beautiful scenery in the United States, second only to Western Oregon in my opinion. (Although I am biased, I did spend a few years growing up in Oregon.) I had a thought that this trip wouldn’t be accessible for people of color who were traveling in Colorado, and unfortunately I was correct. The reality of travel in the Western United States in the mid twentieth century for anyone who wasn’t white, but specifically African American people, was that it was very difficult. You were not able to find lodging in the Green Book along the route for Tour #2 in this guide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/atlas\/north-america\/united-states\/colorado-map<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My map for Tour #2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The available lodging on Tour #2 in Colorado<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Segregation and racial bias affected the trips that were realistically available to African Americans in the United States. If there was nowhere for them to stay along the way on one of these American Guide tours, then it wasn’t realistic for them to go. Racial bias very much affected the flow of tourism, specifically in the South Western United States, because segregation limited the amount of tourists visiting. If a percentage of the population doesn’t have access to a site, then it’s only logical that traffic would be decreased. It’s incredibly frustrating to see this in 2019, and the thought that it was the norm makes me pretty angry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had actually heard of the Green Book before we discussed it in class, and I saw that fairly inaccurate movie titled Green Book. While the movie was not accurate to the lives of the men it was portraying, you did get an idea of how important the Green Book was as a guide <\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> for African Americans from the 1930’s until the end of segregation. Learning how to use the site in class gave us a startling view of the reality of travel. As you can see in my screenshot above, there is nowhere to stay that follows the route of Tour #2. The closest and only place to stay is a hotel in Boulder, Colorado. I think it’s extremely important to be able to digitally map routes from the past, because it gives you a real world visual to draw from. Hearing about the lack of places to stay is one thing, actually seeing the spatial representation is very intense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Sarah Bond’s piece on mapping racism she states “People of color have been using maps to visualize racism for a long time.”<\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> Having spatial awareness and a visual track of just how sparse non-segregated hotels were in the 1940’s is a useful tool to exhibit just how difficult vacationing was for African Americans and people of color in the United States. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I chose to do Tour #2 from the American Guide issue “Colorado: The Highest State”. It provides a detailed trip between Sterling, Colorado and the Continental Divide at Muddy Pass, Colorado. I chose it because Colorado has some of the most beautiful scenery in the United States, second only to Western Oregon in my opinion. … Continue reading “Mapping Colorado”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1840,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions\/1840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}