A Place of Pride: A Look at a Historic Downtown Neighborhood
This website is the digital companion to the physical exhibit commemorating the lost history of historic downtown St. Louis African American neighborhoods in the vicinity of the new NGA West campus. Over the years, these neighborhoods have suffered displacement at the hands of private developers and city government. Themes of community, resistance, and achievement embodied in the exhibit convey how the vital connections between people and place-based stories coalesced into the vibrant memory of these neighborhoods.
LGBTQ+ Saint Louis Oral Histories
This collection was created in partnership with the Missouri History Museum’s Gateway to Pride initiative during Spring Semester 2022 with Dr. Lara Kelland’s HIST 4142/5142/4005.
Reparative Justice Coalition (RJC) Collective Memory Projects
These projects, in collaboration with the Reparative Justice Coalition (RJC) and the UMSL Digital Humanities Lab, display and visualize the stories of two Black people lynched in the St. Louis area by white mobs. These videos memorialize the victims and advocates for the preservation of Black lives taken due to discrimination and brutality.
John Buckner Soil Gathering Project
Gender and the Blues: A Social Media Project
During my time as a graduate research fellow with the National Blues Museum, I work on a social media project intersecting gender and sexuality with blues music. One post received immense praise from NBM’s community and other public historians on Mamie Smith and her history, attached below. Posts were also done on Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Gladys Bentley.
Elliot Thomas Archer 