Red Summers VR

Created by artist and filmmaker Bayeté Ross Smith, Red Summers is a series of 360 immersive episodes with corresponding essays and community testimonials that tell the untold American history of racially motivated domestic terrorism from 1917 to 1921. The series covers seven largely forgotten violent incidents that shaped the next century of American history. It directly connects the social and political issues that led to this violence to the issues American society and the world, face today. Published with The Guardian. The first episode examines Tulsa OK in 1921. Additional episodes examine Chicago 1919, Washington D.C. 1919, Omaha 1919, Elaine Arkansas 1919, East St. Louis 1917 and Houston 1917. These events were not isolated incidents, they are part of a continuum.