Project Update
Digital Archive From the Civil Rights era in America, it was a pivotal time where the time of Jim Crow was over and brought about truer equality. As we saw in 2020 and after during the COVID pandemic, there are still injustices that are brewing. My goal with looking at the 1967 is to see where it had stemmed from seeing as how though similar riots may happen today, simply it was not on the level that the Long Hot Summer saw. My goal is to visualize the riots from the lack of data still surviving today. This topic is important to me partially because I had family tell me how it happened since they lived in an area where it broke out. That was only my spark, what got my passion to ignite was the similarity's I saw from today. These riots are seldomly talked about in todays culture let alone known and my goal is to further educate the consequences of racial injustice in America. I plan on using data from archives, maps, first account, and just about anything I can get my hands on see...