Visualizing the Red Summer aims to connect the public and academia with the data and geographically dispersed archival material needed to facilitate further research on the Red Summer, a series of more than four dozen (known) riots and lynchings that rocked the nation and infiltrated the news almost daily.
The timeline and map, both located along the top menu bar, provide a chronology and background of the events that summer. The map can be filtered and adjusted to reveal patterns and explore each city’s events more deeply. The Red Summer Archive contains over 700 documents and images collected from over 20 institutions across the country, which can be filtered by location, type of document, and other factors. The Additional Resources page includes lesson plans and readings, and the About page goes further into the collection, organization, and presentation of the material on this site and expansion plans.
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Read a recent article creator Karen Sieber wrote in The Conversation about the discovery of a new location of violence in Orono, Maine in April of 1919.
