About
I will use this page to describe how this website was created and the challenges along the way. Most of the challenges came from finding sources. In the beginning it was fairly simple because the Library of Congress had a large selection of photographs on the subject, without any right restrictions, by a photographer named Warren K Leffler. However, when I had used all of those I was again stuck. Almost all of the other images I found had advanced copyrights and so I was unable to use them. I then resorted to videos to fill the space on the website which was not too difficult because there was a large supply of them online.
There was also some difficulty with the required Google Map. Because my topic was how the riots affected the neighborhoods of the city there was very little I could do with a map. I decided to show the scope of the area that was affected including the starting and ending points, and the locations and information of each neighborhood. This seemed to be the best option.
It took me a while to come up with my next visualizaton but I eventually decided on a pair of maps that show the change in the number of white residents in D.C. The map is not really important; it is the data that comes with the maps that matters because that shows the data I want to present. It was created with Social explorer by plugging racial population data from the 1960 and 1970 censuses into their system.
Sources for the essay were even scarcer than the exhibit pieces. I only found two journal sources that could really aid me with the paper. Both sources were recollections and analysis of the events by the authors but I was still able to extract necessary information and apply it to my paper.