The East St. Louis 1917 Centennial Commission and Cultural Initiative was created in 2014 to commemorate the East St. Louis Race Riots. It was retired in 2020; however, much of its work on the Riot is stored here. 

"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. "

History Museum on the Square offers a brief history leading up to the 1906 Springfield, MO Race Riot, and a detailed account of the Race Riot.

 "EJI believes we need a new era of truth and justice that starts with confronting our history of racial injustice." Here they trace racial violence to the slave trade. 

A collaborative project led by Dr. Geoff Ward, Professor of African and African American Studies at Washington University in Saint Louis, "The Racial Violence Archive is developing a more extensive and accessible record of historical racial violence to support research, education, and advocacy regarding this challenge of transformative racial justice."  

Visit Springfield offers an overview of the riot and information on commemorative sites.