Alternate Campus and Race-Cognizant Tours
In response to the absence of history in public spaces, alternate campus tours and other race-cognizant tours emerged as a way to think critically about different sites and aspects of the campus, including difficult racial pasts either erased or selectively remembered. Incorporating traditional archives, oral traditions, and the methods of public history and critical geography, these tours shed light on the alternative stories and narratives of a space as multi-storied. The sharing of these underappreciated histories have become an important vehicle for deepening understandings of historical events, imagining different futures, and encouraging action toward building that different future.
The Hallowed Grounds Tour and other projects showcased on this page are rooted in this analytical framework for centering and drawing attention to the underappreciated histories of race, slavery, and memory public spaces.
The Hallowed Grounds Tour and other projects showcased on this page are rooted in this analytical framework for centering and drawing attention to the underappreciated histories of race, slavery, and memory public spaces.
African American Heritage Guide of Washington County, Maryland
This heritage trail guide highlights the various African American historic sites in Hagerstown and Washington County, Maryland.
African American Historic Sites of Mercersburg
This walking tour highlights the African American historical experience in a small Pennsylvanian community, including Zion Union Cemetery (final resting place of 38 Civil War veterans) and the Brooks-Watson House.
Anniston Civil Rights Trail
This tour highlights the key events, significant sites, and people in the city of Anniston during the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968.
Mobile Phone/iPad friendly: Autherine Lucy: Forgotten Hero
Developed by Dr. Meredith Bagley using Adobe Spark, this alternative campus tour explores the campus history of Autherine Lucy and her legacy for the University of Alabama.
Because We're Still Here (and Moving): Mapping A World of Black History in Our Own Backyard
Created by the Hidden Voices Project, this walking tour highlights African American sites in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC. It includes sites such as the Hollywood and Hollywood Grill, Rock Hill/First Baptist that are no longer physically located in the modern landscape.
Enslaved African Americans at the University of Virginia: Walking Tour
This self-guided walking tour introduces individuals to the people, places, and the early history of African Americans at the University of Virginia.
Mobile Phone/iPad friendly: Hallowed Grounds: Race, Slavery and the University of Alabama
Created by Hilary N. Green using Adobe Spark, this is device friendly version of the shortened alternate campus tour designed for classes (50 minute or 75 minute) and Black History Month. At a leisurely pace, it takes about 45-60 minutes.
Google My Map version: Hallowed Grounds Tour (2020)
Created by Hilary N. Green, this tour seeks to shed light onto the lives, experiences, and legacy of the many enslaved men, women, and children who lived, worked, and even died at the University of Alabama, 1829-1865. This is a Google My Maps of the version of the full tour and updates the printable version created in 2016. At a leisurely pace, it takes about 90 minutes to visit the sites of slavery and its complex legacy of slavery, Jim Crow and Civil Rights Movement.
Locust Grove Cemetery Tour
This walking tour highlights the 26 Civil War Veterans interred at the historic Locust Grove Cemetery in Shippensburg, PA.
Tuscaloosa Civil Rights History Trail
Consisting of UA faculty, Stillman faculty, community members, and former Civil Rights Movement (CRM) foot soldiers, the Tuscaloosa Civil Rights History Task Force created this alternate city tour documenting the important figures and sites of the long Civil Rights Movement in Tuscaloosa, including Bloody Tuesday. More about this community based project is available on their website. https://civilrightstuscaloosa.org.
This heritage trail guide highlights the various African American historic sites in Hagerstown and Washington County, Maryland.
African American Historic Sites of Mercersburg
This walking tour highlights the African American historical experience in a small Pennsylvanian community, including Zion Union Cemetery (final resting place of 38 Civil War veterans) and the Brooks-Watson House.
Anniston Civil Rights Trail
This tour highlights the key events, significant sites, and people in the city of Anniston during the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968.
Mobile Phone/iPad friendly: Autherine Lucy: Forgotten Hero
Developed by Dr. Meredith Bagley using Adobe Spark, this alternative campus tour explores the campus history of Autherine Lucy and her legacy for the University of Alabama.
Because We're Still Here (and Moving): Mapping A World of Black History in Our Own Backyard
Created by the Hidden Voices Project, this walking tour highlights African American sites in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC. It includes sites such as the Hollywood and Hollywood Grill, Rock Hill/First Baptist that are no longer physically located in the modern landscape.
Enslaved African Americans at the University of Virginia: Walking Tour
This self-guided walking tour introduces individuals to the people, places, and the early history of African Americans at the University of Virginia.
Mobile Phone/iPad friendly: Hallowed Grounds: Race, Slavery and the University of Alabama
Created by Hilary N. Green using Adobe Spark, this is device friendly version of the shortened alternate campus tour designed for classes (50 minute or 75 minute) and Black History Month. At a leisurely pace, it takes about 45-60 minutes.
Google My Map version: Hallowed Grounds Tour (2020)
Created by Hilary N. Green, this tour seeks to shed light onto the lives, experiences, and legacy of the many enslaved men, women, and children who lived, worked, and even died at the University of Alabama, 1829-1865. This is a Google My Maps of the version of the full tour and updates the printable version created in 2016. At a leisurely pace, it takes about 90 minutes to visit the sites of slavery and its complex legacy of slavery, Jim Crow and Civil Rights Movement.
Locust Grove Cemetery Tour
This walking tour highlights the 26 Civil War Veterans interred at the historic Locust Grove Cemetery in Shippensburg, PA.
Tuscaloosa Civil Rights History Trail
Consisting of UA faculty, Stillman faculty, community members, and former Civil Rights Movement (CRM) foot soldiers, the Tuscaloosa Civil Rights History Task Force created this alternate city tour documenting the important figures and sites of the long Civil Rights Movement in Tuscaloosa, including Bloody Tuesday. More about this community based project is available on their website. https://civilrightstuscaloosa.org.