Chicago 1919: Confronting the Race Riots

Map of 1919 Chicago Race Riot Violence

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Mapping the 1919 Chicago Riot is a collaborative project conducted at the University of Chicago to visualize the 1919 riot combining original historical sources with modern geospatial technologies. We have compiled official reports and contemporary newspaper articles to map and detail incidents of deaths, injury and arson that occurred during the riots, as well as geo-locating original photographs taken during that time. Our goal is to make this information freely available to the general public and to provide scholars with spatial data to analyze the riot.

Project leader:

John Clegg

Archival research assistants:

Bokyoung Kim, Maggie Lu and Kian Yoo-Sharifi.

GIS Map makers:

Parmanand Sinha and Bibind Vasu.

Web Project Manager:

Kazutaka Takahashi

Web Developer:

Milson Munakami

Special thanks to:

Cosette Bruhns, Peter Cole, Lucia Geng, John Logan, Karen Seiber, Linda Zellmer and participants in the VUE Hackathon.