In February 1919, what began as a wage dispute in the city’s shipyard expanded into a week-long walkout involving more than 50,000 workers that heralded a wave of post-war labor unrest and America’s first red scare.
The website maintained by the project is one of the foremost collections of primary and academic material on the general strike, and is part of the Pacific Northwest Labor and Civil Rights History Projects program at the University of Washington.
The site is divided into eight sections including an introductory slideshow, photographs, video, oral histories, maps, historical newspaper articles, documents and research reports.
In addition to an extensive narrative of the conflict written by Strong and other leaders, the site includes original research reports on the role of Mayor Ole Hanson, the Industrial Workers of the World and the press, among a wide range other topics.
Many of these essays also examine Seattle labor history in the years prior to the strike, exploring the climate that precipitated the city shutdown.