ARCHIVE

The Red Summer Archive is a collection of primary sources related to the Red Summer of 1919.  The collection includes documents acquired from over 20 different collections across the country. While this is not an exhaustive collection on the topic, it does contain over 700 documents including newspaper articles, photographs, comics, reports, letters, telegrams and other items that represent a variety of perspectives. Some locations include more resources than others. New documents are added periodically as they are discovered and cleared for copyright.

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How to Use the Archive: After you enter the archive and the images have loaded, alter the ‘filter’, and then ‘filter options’ to narrow down the documents by riot city, type of document and other categories. The ‘riot and document themes’ filter allows you to narrow down by causes, like labor disputes, but also themes among the documents like articles that pit North vs. South, or that mention alcohol as a factor. Clicking on any light blue card will bring you to a larger image and information about that historic resource for researchers who want to cite it.