Eyewitness account of the civil disorder in Detroit in the summer of 1967. During the last days of July 1967, Detroit experienced a week of devastating urban co

Readers of Detroit history and urban studies will be drawn to and enlightened by these powerful essays.

On July 23, 1967, the Detroit police raided a blind pig (after-hours drinking establishment), touching off the most destructive urban riot of the 1960s. On the

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the publi

A two-part detailed analysis of the June 20, 1943 Detroit race riot, including Thurgood Marshall's condemnation of the white police brutality. A total of 34 peo