Putting Them on the Map project traces work of Colored Co-operative Publishing Co. agents

Dr. Alisha Knight has completed another phase of her digital humanities project Putting Them on the Map (puttingthemonthemap.org).  This website sheds light on the identities and lives of the Colored Co-operative Publishing Company’s agents who labored to promote its publications, namely the Colored American Magazine and Pauline Hopkins’s first novel, Contending Forces. In a remarkably short period of time the company established a network of African Americans who were empowered to advance the racial uplift movement at the turn of the twentieth century. Using GIS technology, this site maps the locations of each agent from month to month illustrating the rapid growth of the company’s agent network.