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{{Infobox civil conflict
|title       = The Detroit Riot of 1967<ref>{{cite web|url=https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/uprising-1967|title=Uprising of 1967 – Detroit Historical Society|website=detroithistorical.org}}</ref>
|partof      = the [[long, hot summer of 1967]]
|image       = Detroit 1967.jpg
|caption     = Destroyed buildings in Detroit, July 24, 1967
|date        = July 23–28, 1967
|place       = [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], U.S.
|coordinates = {{coord|42|22|35|N|83|05|58|W|format=dms|display=inline,title|type:event_region:US-MI_scale:50000}}
|causes      = Police raid of an unlicensed, after-hours bar
|methods     = [[Riot]]ing, [[protests]], [[looting]], [[arson]], murder, assault
|result      = See ''[[#Effects|Effects]]''
|side1       = {{flagicon image|Flag of the United States Army.svg}} [[82nd Airborne Division]]<br />{{flagicon image|Flag of the United States Army.svg}} [[101st Airborne Division]]<br />{{nowrap|{{flagicon image|Flag of Michigan.svg}} [[Michigan Army National Guard]]}}<br />{{flagicon image|Flag of Michigan.svg}} [[Michigan State Police]]<br />{{flagicon image|Flag of Detroit.svg}} [[Detroit Police Department]]
|side2       = Rioters
|casualties1 = '''82nd Airborne Division''':<br />5 wounded<br />'''101st Airborne Division''':<br />3 wounded<br />'''Michigan Army National Guard''':<br /> 1 killed<br />55 wounded<br />'''Michigan State Police''':<br />67 wounded<br />'''Detroit Police Department''':<br /> 1 killed<br />214 wounded<br />'''Detroit Fire Department''':<br /> 2 killed<br />134 wounded
|casualties2 = 16 killed<br />493 wounded
|notes={{center|'''Civilian casualties'''}}23 killed<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XaRMAQAAMAAJ|title=Violence in the Model City The Cavanagh Administration, Race Relations, and the Detroit Riot of 1967|author=[[Sidney Fine (historian)|Sidney Fine]]|publisher=[[Michigan State University Press]]|date=2007|isbn=978-0-87013-815-7}}</ref>
}}
{{Campaignbox Long hot summer of 1967}}
The '''1967 Detroit riot''', also known as the '''12th Street Riot''' and the '''Detroit Uprising''', was the bloodiest of the urban riots in the United States during the "[[long, hot summer of 1967]]".<ref>{{cite book |author=Harvard  |title=Postwar America |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eU_nCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA85 |year=2000 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=85 |isbn=978-0-19-510300-7}}</ref> Composed mainly of confrontations between black residents and the [[Detroit Police Department]], it began in the early morning hours of Sunday July 23, 1967, in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]].

The precipitating event was a police raid of an unlicensed, after-hours bar, known as a [[Speakeasy|''blind pig'']], on the city's Near West Side. It exploded into one of the deadliest and most destructive social insurgences in American history, lasting five days and surpassing the scale of Detroit's [[1943 Detroit race riot|1943 race riot]] 24 years earlier.

[[Michigan Governor|Governor]] [[George W. Romney]] ordered the [[Michigan Army National Guard]] into Detroit to help end the disturbance. [[U.S. President|President]] [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] sent in the [[United States Army]]'s [[82nd Airborne Division|82nd]] and [[101st Airborne Division|101st]] Airborne divisions. The riot resulted in 43 deaths, 1,189 injured, over 7,200 arrests, and more than 400 buildings destroyed.

The scale of the riot was the worst in the [[United States]] since the 1863 [[New York City draft riots]] during the [[American Civil War]], and it was not surpassed until the [[1992 Los Angeles riots]] 25 years later.

The riot was prominently featured in the news media, with live television coverage, extensive newspaper reporting, and extensive stories in ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' and ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' magazines. The staff of the ''[[Detroit Free Press]]'' won the [[1968 Pulitzer Prize|1968]] [[Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting|Pulitzer Prize for general local reporting]] for its coverage.

Canadian folk singer [[Gordon Lightfoot]] wrote and recorded the song "Black Day in July", which recounts these events, for his 1968 album ''[[Did She Mention My Name?]]''. The song was subsequently banned by radio stations in 30 American states. "Black Day in July" was later covered by [[The Tragically Hip]] on the 2003 anthology ''Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot''.

== Background ==
[[File:We want white tenants.jpg|thumb|Suburban homeowners in Detroit installed this sign in 1942, reading {{small|"WE WANT WHITE TENANTS IN OUR WHITE COMMUNITY"}}. The legacy of housing segregation continued long afterwards, and most whites resisted [[Housing discrimination in the United States|fair housing]] measures in the years before the riot.<ref name=promised>[https://academic.oup.com/maghis/article-abstract/26/1/23/982201/The-northern-promised-land-that-wasn-t-Rosa-Parks?redirectedFrom=fulltext Theoharis, Jeanne, "'The northern promised land that wasn't': Rosa Parks and the Black Freedom Struggle in Detroit", ''OAH Magazine of History'', Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 23–27]</ref>]]

=== Racial segregation ===
In the early 20th century, when African Americans migrated to Detroit in the [[Great Migration (African American)|Great Migration]], the city experienced a rapidly increasing population and a shortage of housing. African Americans encountered strong [[Housing discrimination in the United States|discrimination in housing]]. Both racial covenants and unspoken agreements among whites kept black people out of certain neighborhoods and prevented most African Americans from buying their own homes. The presence of [[Ku Klux Klan]] members throughout Michigan furthered racial tensions and violence. [[Malcolm X]]'s father, Earl Little, was killed in a streetcar accident in 1931, although X stated in his autobiography that he believed the Klan's Black Legion in [[East Lansing]] was involved.<ref>[[Malcolm X]] with [[Alex Haley]], ''[[The Autobiography of Malcolm X]]''. New York City: Grove Press, 1964.</ref> In addition, a system of [[redlining]] was instituted, which made it nearly impossible for black Detroiters to purchase a home in most areas of the city, effectively locking black residents into lower-quality neighborhoods.<ref name=":1">{{cite book |last=Sugrue |first=Thomas |title=Origins of the Urban Crisis |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |location=Princeton, NJ |year=1996 |pages=34–54 |isbn=978-0-691-16255-3}}</ref> These discriminatory practices and the effects of the [[Racial segregation in the United States|segregation]] that resulted from them contributed significantly to the racial tensions in the city before the riot. Segregation also encouraged harsher policing in African American neighborhoods, which escalated black Detroiters' frustrations leading up to the riot.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

Patterns of racial and ethnic segregation persisted through the mid-20th century. In 1956, mayor [[Orville Hubbard]] of [[Dearborn, Michigan|Dearborn]], part of [[Metro Detroit]], boasted to the ''[[Montgomery Advertiser]]'' that "Negroes can't get in here...These people are so anti-colored, much more than you in [[Alabama]]."[[#cite note-askelon-48|<sup>[48]</sup>]]

=== Recent reforms ===
The election of Mayor [[Jerome P. Cavanagh|Jerome Cavanagh]] in 1961 brought some reform to the police department, led by new Detroit Police Commissioner [[George Clifton Edwards, Jr.|George Edwards]]. Detroit had acquired millions in federal funds through [[Lyndon B. Johnson|President Johnson]]'s [[Great Society]] programs and invested them almost exclusively in the [[inner city]], where [[poverty]] and social problems were concentrated. By the 1960s, many black people had advanced into better [[Labor unions in the United States|union]] and professional jobs. The city had a prosperous black [[middle class]]; higher-than-normal wages for unskilled black workers due to the success of the [[auto industry]]; two black [[Member of Congress|Congressmen]] (half of the black Congressmen at the time); three black judges; two black members on the [[Detroit Public Schools|Detroit Board of Education]]; a housing commission that was forty percent black; and twelve black representatives representing Detroit in the [[Michigan legislature]].[[#cite note-49|<sup>[49]</sup>]] The city had mature black neighborhoods such as [[Conant Gardens]]. In May 1967, the federal administration ranked housing for the black community in Detroit above that of [[Philadelphia]], New York City, Chicago, and [[Cleveland]]. [[Nicholas Hood]], the sole black member of the nine-member [[Detroit Common Council]], praised the Cavanagh administration for its willingness to listen to concerns of the inner city. Weeks prior to the riot, Mayor Cavanagh had said that residents did not "need to throw a brick to communicate with City Hall."[[#cite note-50|<sup>[50]</sup>]]

There were still signs of black disaffection, however; In 1964, [[Rosa Parks]], who had moved to Detroit in the late fifties, told an interviewer: ''"I don't feel a great deal of difference here [from Alabama]...Housing segregation is just as bad, and it seems more noticeable in the larger cities."''[[#cite note-promised-43|<sup>[42]</sup>]] The improvements mostly benefited wealthier black Detroiters, and poor black Detroiters remained frustrated by the social conditions in Detroit.<ref name=":1" /> Despite the modest improvements described above, segregation, [[Police brutality in the United States|police brutality]] and racial tension were rampant in 1960s Detroit and played a large role in inciting the riot.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

=== Policing issues ===
The [[Detroit Police Department]] was administered directly by the [[Mayor of Detroit|Mayor]]. Prior to the riot, Mayor Cavanagh's appointees, George Edwards and Ray Girardin, worked for reform. Edwards tried to recruit and promote black police officers, but he refused to establish a [[Civilian police oversight agency|civilian police review board]], as African Americans had requested. In trying to discipline police officers accused of brutality, he turned the police department's rank-and-file against him. Many whites perceived his policies as "too soft on crime".<ref>Stolberg, Mary. ''Bridging the River of Hatred'', Wayne State University Press, 2002. p. 149</ref> The Community Relations Division of the Michigan [[Civil Rights Commission]] undertook a study in 1965 of the police, published in 1968. It claimed the "police system" was at fault for racism. The police system was blamed for recruiting "[[bigots]]" and reinforcing bigotry through the department's "value system". A survey conducted by President Johnson's [[Kerner Commission]] found that prior to the riot, 45 percent of police working in black neighborhoods were "extremely anti-Negro" and an additional 34 percent were "[[prejudice]]d".<ref>Fine (1989), ''Violence in the Model City'', pp.&nbsp;95–96</ref>

In 1967, 93% of the force was still white, although 30% of the city residents were black.<ref name="detnews.com">{{cite web|url=http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070719/METRO/707190418&theme=Metro-1967riots |author=Cindy Rodriguez| title=Riot or rebellion? Detroiters don't agree |publisher=The Detroit News |date= July 19, 2007 |access-date=April 24, 2011}}</ref><ref>National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, op cit., p. 321</ref> Incidents of police brutality caused black residents to feel at risk.  They resented many police officers who they felt talked down to them, addressing men as "boys" and women as "honey" and "baby." Police made street searches of groups of young men, and single women complained of being called [[Prostitution|prostitutes]] for simply walking on the street.<ref>Fine (1989), ''Violence in the Model City'', pp.&nbsp;99–100</ref> The police frequently arrested people who did not have proper identification. The local press reported several [[Lists of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States|questionable shootings]] and beatings of black citizens by officers in the years before 1967.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.67riots.rutgers.edu/d_events.htm |title=The Detroit Riots of 1967 |access-date=April 24, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110303015837/http://www.67riots.rutgers.edu/d_events.htm |archive-date=March 3, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> After the riot, a ''[[Detroit Free Press]]'' survey showed that residents reported police brutality as the number one problem they faced in the period leading up to the riot.<ref name="autogenerated2">{{cite web |url=http://www.67riots.rutgers.edu/d_index.htm |title=The Detroit Riots of 1967: Events |access-date=April 24, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100823045746/http://www.67riots.rutgers.edu/d_index.htm |archive-date=August 23, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Black citizens complained that the police did not respond to their calls as quickly as to those of white citizens. They believed that the police profited from [[vice]] and other crime in black neighborhoods, and press accusations of [[corruption]] and connections to [[organized crime]] weakened their trust in the police. According to Sidney Fine, "the biggest complaint about vice in the [[ghetto]] was prostitution." The black community leadership thought the police did not do enough to curb white [[john (prostitution)|johns]] from exploiting local women.<ref>Fine (1989), ''Violence in the Model City'', p. 101</ref> In the weeks leading up to the riot, police had started to work to curb prostitution along Twelfth Street. On July 1, a prostitute was killed, and rumors spread that the police had shot her. The police said that she was murdered by local [[Procuring (prostitution)|pimps]].<ref>Singer, Benjamin D. and Geschwender, James. ''Black Rioters''. Heath and Co., 1970. p. 36</ref> Detroit police used ''Big 4'' or ''Tac'' squads, each made up of four police officers, to patrol Detroit neighborhoods, and such squads were used to combat [[soliciting]].{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

Black residents felt police raids of after-hours drinking clubs were racially biased actions. Since the 1920s, such clubs had become important parts of Detroit's social life for black citizens; although they started with [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]], they continued because of discrimination against black people in service at many Detroit bars, restaurants, and entertainment venues.<ref>Smith, Suzanne E. ''Dancing in the Streets'', Harvard University Press, 1999. p. 193</ref>

=== Employment and unemployment ===
In the postwar period, the city had lost nearly 150,000 jobs to the suburbs. Factors were a combination of changes in [[technology]], increased [[automation]], consolidation of the [[Automotive industry in the United States|auto industry]], [[Tax policy and economic inequality in the United States|taxation policies]], the need for different kinds of manufacturing space, and the construction of the [[Highway system in the United States|highway system]] that eased transportation. Major companies like [[Packard]], [[Hudson Motor Car Company|Hudson]], and [[Studebaker]], as well as hundreds of smaller companies, went out of business. In the 1950s, the [[Unemployment Rate|unemployment rate]] hovered near 10 percent. Between 1946 and 1956, [[General Motors|GM]] spent $3.4 billion on new plants, [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] $2.5 billion, and [[Chrysler]] $700 million, opening a total of 25 auto plants, all in Detroit's [[suburb]]s. As a result, workers who could do so left Detroit for jobs in the suburbs. Other middle-class residents left the city for newer housing, in a pattern repeated nationwide. In the 1960s, the city lost about 10,000 residents per year to the suburbs. Detroit's population fell by 179,000 between 1950 and 1960, and by another 156,000 residents by 1970, which affected all its retail businesses and city services.<ref>US Census figures</ref>

By the time of the riot, unemployment among black men was more than double that among white men in Detroit. In the 1950s, 15.9 percent of blacks were unemployed, but only 6 percent of whites were unemployed. This was partially due to the union seniority system of the factories. Except for Ford, which hired a significant number of black workers for their factories, the other automakers did not hire black workers until World War II resulted in a [[labor shortage]]. With lower seniority, black workers were the first to be [[Layoff|laid off]] in job cutbacks after the war. Moreover, black labor was "[[ghetto]]ized" into the "most arduous, dangerous and unhealthy jobs."<ref>Georgakas, Dan and Marvin Surkin. ''Detroit: I Do Mind Dying.'' Detroit: [[South End Press]], 1998, p. 4</ref>

When the auto industry boomed again in the early 1960s, only [[Chrysler]] and the Cadillac Division of General Motors assembled vehicles in the city of Detroit.  The black workers they hired got "the worst and most dangerous jobs: the [[foundry]] and the body shop."<ref>Georgakas (1998), ''Detroit: I Do Mind Dying.'', p. 28</ref><ref>{{cite web| last = Babiasz| first = Joe| title = The rise and fall of a modern marvel| url = http://www.autotraderclassics.com/car-article/Old+Factories%3A+Cadillac%E2%80%99s+Clark+Street+Assembly+Plant-192294.xhtml| access-date = December 27, 2014 }}</ref>

A prosperous, black educated class had developed in traditional professions such as [[social work]], [[Minister (Christianity)|ministry]], [[medicine]], and [[nursing]].  Many other black citizens working outside manufacturing were relegated to service industries as [[waiters]], [[Porter (carrier)|porters]], or [[janitors]]. Many black women were limited to work in [[Domestic worker|domestic service]].<ref>Cantor, Milton and Bruce Laurie. ''Class, Sex, and the Woman Worker.'' Madison: Greenwood Press, 1977. 24</ref> Certain business sectors were known to discriminate against hiring black workers, even at [[Entry-level job|entry-level]] positions. It took picketing by Arthur Johnson and the Detroit chapter of the [[NAACP]] before [[First Federal Bank of the Midwest|First Federal Bank]] hired their first black [[bank teller|tellers]] and clerks.<ref>Johnson, Arthur L. ''Race and Remembrance''. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2008. 47</ref>

=== Housing developments and discrimination ===
[[File:Lafayette Park Detroit redevelopment over Black Bottom.jpg|thumb|left|The neighborhood of Black Bottom, a center of the black community, was replaced by Lafayette Park (pictured here) in an urban renewal project. Its loss resulted in racial tensions, due to the dislocation of community networks as well as loss of housing.<ref name="autogenerated2" />]]
Housing in Detroit had been a major problem due to the industrial boom that started in the early 20th century. Several [[urban renewal]] projects after World War II, intended to improve housing, dramatically changed neighborhood boundaries and ethnic composition. Affordability for industrial workers and the sheer number of new people in the city resulted in a housing shortage, ultimately fostering the need to establish federal loan systems and invest in [[Subsidized housing in the United States|public housing]], especially for minority populations.<ref name=":1" /> Detroit undertook a series of urban renewal projects that disproportionately affected black people, who occupied some of the oldest housing.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Origins of "Redevelopment" · Before the Unrest: 1940–1967 · 12th Street Detroit |url=https://projects.library.wayne.edu/12thstreetdetroit/exhibits/show/beforeunrest/panel4 |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=projects.library.wayne.edu}}</ref>

Racial discrimination in housing was federally enforced by redlining and restrictive covenants in the mid-20th century.  They played an important role in segregating Detroit and escalating racial tensions in the city. [[Home Owners' Loan Corporation|The Home Owners' Loan Corporation]] was in charge of assigning ratings of "A" (green) through "D" (red) to all of the neighborhoods in major U.S. cities based on the conditions of the buildings, the infrastructure and most importantly, the racial composition of the area. Residents of a neighborhood with a "C" or "D" rating struggled to get loans, and almost all neighborhoods with any African American population were rated "D", effectively segregating the city by race.<ref name=":1" /> This effectively limited options for African Americans to purchase houses outside of these areas, or acquire resources to repair their already damaged homes in these areas. In fact, only 0.8% of all new construction in the city was available to African Americans.<ref name=":2">{{cite book |last=Sugrue |first=Thomas J. |title=The origins of the urban crisis: race and inequality in postwar Detroit |publisher=Princeton University Press |date=2014 |isbn=978-0-691-16255-3 |oclc=881445883}}</ref>{{page needed|date=July 2020}} [[Black Bottom, Detroit|Black Bottom]] and Paradise Valley (located on Detroit's lower east side, south of [[M-3 (Michigan highway)|Gratiot]]) were examples of African-American neighborhoods that formed as a result of these government restrictions.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

Examples of city projects for housing include the massive Gratiot Redevelopment Project, planned as early as 1946. It was planned eventually to cover a {{convert|129|acre|ha|adj=on}} site on the lower east side that included Hastings Street – the center of Paradise Valley. Other public housing projects also resulted in more tension between white and black people in the city. Although it seemed positive for working-class individuals, the negative effects can still be felt today. Projects like [[Sojourner Truth Project|Sojurner Truth]] were erected in 1941 to account for the unfair bias against African Americans in their housing search. However, it ended up concentrating the African Americans in areas where city whites did not want them, only furthering the racial tension in the city.<ref name=":2" />{{page needed|date=July 2020}}

The city's goals were to "arrest the exodus of business from the central city, to convert [[slum]] property to better housing, and to enlarge the city's tax base."<ref name="p61">Fine (1989), ''Violence in the Model City'', p. 61</ref> Bolstered by successive federal legislation, including the 1941, 1949, 1950, 1954 versions of the ''[[Housing Act of 1949|Housing Act]]'' and its [[amendment]]s through the 1960s, the city acquired funds to develop the [[Detroit Medical Center]] complex, [[Lafayette Park, Detroit|Lafayette Park]], Central Business District Project One, and the [[Chrysler Freeway]], by appropriating land and "clearing slums". Money was included for replacement housing in the legislation, but the goal of urban renewal was to physically reshape the city; its social effects on neighborhoods was not well understood.<ref name="p61" /> As older neighborhoods were demolished, black people, and people of every color from Detroit's [[skid row]], moved to areas north of Black Bottom along Grand Boulevard, but especially to the west side of Woodward, along Grand Boulevard and ultimately the 12th Street neighborhood. As [[Ze'ev Chafets]] wrote in ''Devil's Night and Other True Tales of Detroit'' (1990s), in the 1950s the area around 12th Street rapidly changed from a [[American Jews|community of ethnic Jews]] to a predominantly black community, an example of [[white flight]].<ref>National Advisory Commission, p. 86</ref> Jewish residents had moved to the suburbs for newer housing, but they often retained business or property interests in their old community. Thus, many of the blacks who moved to the 12th Street area rented from [[absentee landlord]]s and shopped in businesses run by suburbanites. [[Crime statistics|Crime rates]] rose in the 12th Street area.<ref>Chafets, Za'ev. ''Devil's Night and Other True Tales of Detroit''. New York: Vintage Books, 1990, p. 8</ref>

By 1967, distinct neighborhood boundaries were known, whether visible (as the case on [[Detroit Wall|Eight Mile and Wyoming]]), or invisible (as the case of Dequindre Road).<ref name=":2" />{{page needed|date=July 2020}} With white and black people culturally and physically separated, racial tensions were high in the city. As a result, African American neighborhoods were overrun, high in density, and often poor in health quality. For example, the neighborhood around 12th Street had a [[population density]] that was twice the city average.<ref>''Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders'', New York: Bantam Books, 1968, p. 68 (stating "Along 12th Street itself, crowded apartment houses created a density of more than 21,000 persons per square mile, almost double the city average.")</ref> After the riot, respondents to a ''Detroit Free Press'' poll listed poor housing as the second most important issue leading up to the riot, behind [[police brutality]].<ref name="autogenerated2" />

=== Education ===
[[File:DetroitNorthernHighSchool.jpg|thumb|Northern High School on [[Woodward Avenue]] was 98% black in 1966 and the setting of a black-student walkout.]]
[[Detroit Public Schools]] suffered from underfunding and [[Racial discrimination in education|racial discrimination]] before the riots. Underfunding was a function of a decreasing tax base as the population shrank while the numbers of students rose. From 1962 to 1966, enrollment grew from 283,811 to 294,653, but the loss of tax base made less funding available.<ref>Fine (1989), ''Violence in the Model City'', p. 42</ref> At the same time, middle-class families were leaving the district, and the numbers of low-scoring and economically disadvantaged students, mostly black, were increasing. In 1966–67, the funding per pupil in Detroit was $193 compared to $225 per pupil in the suburbs. Exacerbating this inequity were the challenges in educating disadvantaged students. The Detroit Board of Education estimated it cost twice as much to educate a "[[ghetto]] child properly as to educate a suburban child".<ref>Fine (1989), ''Violence in the Model City'', p. 43</ref> According to Michigan law in 1967, class sizes could not exceed thirty-five students, but in inner-city schools they did, sometimes swelling to forty students per teacher. To have the same teacher/student ratio as the rest of the state, Detroit would have to hire 1,650 more teachers for the 1966–67 school year.<ref>Fine (1989), p. 43</ref>

In 1959, the Detroit School Board passed a [[bylaw]] banning discrimination in all school operations and activities. From 1962 to 1966, black organizations continued to work to improve the quality of education of black students. Issues included class size, school boundaries, and the ways in which white teachers treated black students. The Citizens Advisory Committee on Equal Educational Opportunities reported a pattern of discrimination in the assignment of teachers and [[Head teacher|principals]] in Detroit schools. It also found "grave [[Employment discrimination|discrimination" in employment]], and in training opportunities in [[Apprenticeship in the United States|apprenticeship]] programs. It was dissatisfied with the rate of [[Desegregation in the United States|desegregation]] in attendance boundaries. The school board accepted the recommendations made by the committee, but faced increasing community pressure. The [[NAACP]] demanded [[Affirmative action in the United States|affirmative action]] hiring of school personnel and increased desegregation through an "open schools" policy. Foreshadowing the break between black [[Civil and political rights|civil rights]] groups and [[Black nationalism|black nationalists]] after the riot, a community group led by Rev. [[Albert Cleage]], Group of Advanced Leadership (GOAL), emphasized changes in textbooks and [[Curriculum|classroom curriculum]] as opposed to integration. Cleage wanted black teachers to teach black students in black studies, as opposed to integrated classrooms where all students were held to the same academic standards.<ref>Fine (1989), ''Violence in the Model City'', pp.&nbsp;48–49</ref>

In April and May 1966, a [[student protest]] at Detroit Northern High School made headlines throughout the city. Northern was 98% black and had substandard [[Michigan Educational Assessment Program|academic testing]] scores. A student newspaper article, [[Censorship|censored]] by the administration, claimed teachers and the principal "taught down" to blacks and used [[social promotion]] to graduate kids without educating them. Students walked out and set up a temporary "Freedom School" in a neighborhood church, which was staffed by many volunteer [[Wayne State University]] faculty. By May [[Solidarity action|sympathy strikes]] were planned at Eastern, and Rev. [[Albert Cleage]] had taken up the cause. When the [[Board of education|school board]] voted to remove the principal and vice principal, as well as the single police officer assigned to Northern, whites regarded the board's actions as capitulation to "threats" and were outraged the "students were running the school". City residents voted against a school-tax increase.<ref>Fine (1989), ''Violence in the Model City'', pp.&nbsp;53–55</ref>

Under the Cavanagh administration, the school board created a Community Relations Division at the deputy [[Superintendent (police)|superintendent]] level. Arthur L. Johns, the former head of the Detroit chapter of the NAACP, was hired in 1966 to advance community involvement in schools, and improve "intergroup relations and affirmative action."<ref>Fine (1989), ''Violence in the Model City'', p. 50</ref> Black dominated schools in the city continued to be overcrowded as well as underfunded.<ref>''National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders'', (1968), p. 90. "51% of the elementary school classes were overcrowded."</ref>

=== Retail stores and services ===
Customer surveys published by the ''[[Detroit Free Press]]'' indicated that blacks were disproportionately unhappy with the way store owners treated them compared to whites. In stores serving black neighborhoods, owners engaged in "sharp and unethical [[credit]] practices" and were "discourteous if not abusive to their customers".<ref>Fine (1989), ''Violence in the Model City'', p. 41</ref> The NAACP, Trade Union Leadership Council (TULC), and [[Congress of Racial Equality]] (CORE) all took up this issue with the Cavanagh administration before the riot. In 1968, the [[Archdiocese of Detroit]] published one of the largest shopper surveys in American history. It found that the inner-city shopper paid 20% more for food and groceries than the suburbanite. Some of the differences were due to economies of scale in larger suburban stores, as well as ease in transportation and delivery of goods.<ref>Fine (1989), ''Violence in the Model City'' p. 43</ref>

Shortly after the Detroit riot, Mayor Jerome Cavanagh lashed out at the "[[Profiteering (business)|profiteering]]" of merchants and asked the city council to pass an anti-[[Price gouging|gouging]] ordinance.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Bean |first=Jonathan J. |title='Burn, Baby, Burn': Small Business in the Urban Riots of the 1960s |journal=The Independent Review |volume=5 |issue=2 |page=176 |date=Fall 2000}}</ref>

== Events ==
The crimes reported to police included [[looting]], [[arson]], and [[Sniper|sniping]], and took place in many different areas of Detroit: on the west side of [[Woodward Avenue]], extending from the 12th Street neighborhood to Grand River Avenue and as far south as [[Michigan Avenue (Michigan)|Michigan Avenue]] and Trumbull, near [[Tiger Stadium (Detroit)|Tiger Stadium]]. East of Woodward, the area around East [[Grand Boulevard (Detroit)|Grand Boulevard]], which goes east/west then north–south to [[Belle Isle Park|Belle Isle]], was involved. However, the entire city was affected between Sunday, July 23, and Thursday, July 27.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

=== July 23 ===
==== Arrest of party guests ====
In the early hours of Sunday (3:45&nbsp;a.m.), July 23, 1967, [[Detroit Police Department]] (DPD) officers [[Police raid|raided]] an unlicensed weekend drinking club (known locally as a [[Speakeasy|blind pig]]) in the office of the United Community League for Civic Action, above the Economy Printing Company, at 9125 12th Street.<ref>McClelland, Ted. Nothin' but Blue Skies: The Heyday, Hard Times, and Hopes of America's Industrial Heartland. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013, p. 35.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.detroits-great-rebellion.com/Economy-Printing.html|title=Economy-Printing – The Raid}}</ref> They expected a few revelers inside, but instead found a party of 82 people celebrating the return of two local [[G.I. (military)|GIs]] from the [[Vietnam War]]. The police decided to arrest everyone present. While they were arranging for transportation, a sizable crowd of onlookers gathered on the street, having witnessed the raid.<ref>Herman, Max Arthur (2005). [https://books.google.com/books?id=OI30dauNztQC&pg=PA76 ''Fighting in the Streets: Ethnic Succession and Urban Unrest in Twentieth-Century America''], p. 76. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.</ref> Later, in a memoir, William Walter Scott III, a doorman whose father was running the raided blind pig, took responsibility for starting the riot by [[Inciting a riot|inciting]] the crowd and throwing a bottle at a police officer.<ref>Scott, William Walter. Hurt, Baby, Hurt. Ann Arbor, Mich: New Ghetto Press, 1970.</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.bridgemi.com/detroit-journalism-cooperative/he-started-detroit-riot-his-son-wrestles-carnage|title=He started the Detroit riot, which was a bad day. His son wrestles with the carnage.|date=July 21, 2017|access-date=October 8, 2017|language=en|archive-date=October 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171008232101/http://www.bridgemi.com/detroit-journalism-cooperative/he-started-detroit-riot-his-son-wrestles-carnage|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==== Beginning of looting ====
After the DPD left, the crowd began looting an adjacent clothing store. Shortly thereafter, full-scale looting began throughout the neighborhood. The [[Michigan State Police]], [[Wayne County, Michigan|Wayne County]] Sheriff's Department, and the [[Michigan Army National Guard]] were alerted, but because it was Sunday, it took hours for Police Commissioner Ray Girardin to assemble sufficient manpower. Meanwhile, witnesses described seeing a "carnival atmosphere" on 12th Street. The DPD, inadequate in number and wrongly believing that the rioting would soon expire, just stood there and watched. Police did not make their first arrest until 7&nbsp;a.m., three hours after the raid on the blind pig. To the east, on Chene Street, reports said the crowd was of mixed composition.<ref>McClelland, Ted. Nothin' but Blue Skies: The Heyday, Hard Times, and Hopes of America's Industrial Heartland. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013, p. 36.</ref> The pastor of Grace Episcopal Church along 12th Street reported that he saw a "gleefulness in throwing stuff and getting stuff out of buildings".<ref>Fine, Sidney. ''Violence in the Model City: The Cavanagh Administration, Race Relations, and the Detroit Riot of 1967''. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1989. p. 165</ref> The police conducted several sweeps along 12th Street, which proved ineffective because of the unexpectedly large numbers of people outside. The first major fire broke mid-afternoon in a grocery store at the corner of 12th Street and Atkinson.<ref>Herb Colling. Turning Points: The Detroit Riot of 1967, A Canadian Perspective. Natural Heritage Books, 2003, p. 42.</ref> The crowd prevented firefighters from extinguishing it, and soon more smoke filled the skyline.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

==== Local responses ====
The local news media initially avoided reporting on the disturbance so as not to inspire [[Copycat crime|copy-cat violence]], but the rioting started to expand to other parts of the city, including looting of retail and grocery stores elsewhere. By Sunday afternoon, news had spread, and people attending events such as a [[Fox Theatre (Detroit, Michigan)|Fox Theater]] Motown revue and [[Detroit Tigers]] [[baseball]] game were warned to avoid certain areas of the city. [[Motown]]'s [[Martha Reeves]] was on stage at the Fox, singing "Jimmy Mack," and was asked to tell people to leave quietly, as there was trouble outside. After the game, Tigers left fielder [[Willie Horton (baseball)|Willie Horton]], a Detroit resident who had grown up not far from 12th Street, drove to the riot area and stood on a car in the middle of the crowd while still in his baseball uniform. Despite Horton's impassioned pleas, he could not calm the crowd.<ref>Danver, Steven Laurence. Revolts, Protests, Demonstrations, and Rebellions in American History: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, 2011, p. 989.</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2017/07/19/tigers-great-willie-horton-riots-like-war/103810274/|title=Tigers great Willie Horton: 1967 riots 'was like a war'|work=Detroit News|access-date=September 28, 2017|language=en}}</ref>

Mayor [[Jerome Cavanagh]] stated that the situation was "critical" but not yet "out of control."<ref>{{Cite book|title=Detroit 1967 : origins, impacts, legacies|others=Stone, Joel (Joel Lagrou), Sugrue, Thomas J.|isbn=978-0-8143-4304-3|location=Detroit, Michigan|oclc=957745596|last1 = Stone|first1 = Joel|date = 2017}}</ref> At 7:45&nbsp;p.m. that first (Sunday) night, Cavanagh enacted a citywide 9:00&nbsp;p.m. – 5:30&nbsp;a.m. [[curfew]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/23/us/5-days-in-1967-still-shake-detroit.html |title=5 Days in 1967 Still Shake Detroit |last1=Meredith |first1=Robyn|date=July 23, 1997 |website=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=November 17, 2013}}</ref> prohibited sales of alcohol<ref name="LBJ Library">{{cite web |url=http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/oralhistory.hom/vance-c/detroitreport.asp |title=Final Report of Cyrus R. Vance Concerning the Detroit Riots |last1=Vance |first1=Cyrus |website=lbjlib.utexas.edu |publisher=LBJ Library |access-date=December 10, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607101254/http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/oralhistory.hom/Vance-C/DetroitReport.asp |archive-date=June 7, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and firearms, and informally curtailed business activity in recognition of the serious [[Civil disorder|civil unrest]] engulfing sections of the city.<ref name="LBJ Library" /> A number of adjoining communities also enacted curfews. There was significant white participation in the rioting and looting, raising questions as to whether the event fits into the classical [[race riot]] category.<ref>Chikota, Richard A. and Michael C. Moran. ''Riot in the Cities: An Analytical Symposium on the Causes and Effects''. [[Fairleigh Dickinson University]] Press, 1970. [https://books.google.com/books?id=wURZI-7uFSAC&dq=whites+participating+in+1967+detroit+riots&pg=PA176 176]. Retrieved from ''[[Google News]]'' on February 22, 2010. {{ISBN|978-0-8386-7443-7}}.</ref>

=== July 24 ===
==== Police crackdowns ====
[[Michigan State Police]] and the Wayne County Sheriff's Department were called in to Detroit to assist an overwhelmed Detroit police force. As the violence spread, the police began to make numerous arrests to clear rioters off the streets, housing the detainees in makeshift jails. Beginning Monday, people were detained without being brought to [[Recorder's Court]] for [[arraignment]]. Some gave false names, making the process of identifying those arrested difficult because of the need to take and check [[fingerprint]]s. [[Windsor, Ontario|Windsor]] [[Windsor Police Service|Police]] were asked to help check fingerprints.<ref>Fine (1989), ''Violence in the Model City'', pp. 230–233</ref>

Police began to take pictures of looters arrested, the arresting officer, and the stolen goods, to speed up the process and postpone the paperwork. More than eighty percent of those arrested were black.  About twelve percent were women. [[Michigan National Guard]]smen were not authorized to arrest people, so [[Michigan State Police|state troopers]] and police officers made all arrests without discriminating between [[civilian]]s and [[Crime|criminals]].<ref name="Fine">Fine, Sidney. ''Violence in the Model City: The Cavanagh Administration, Race Relations, and the Detroit Riot of 1967''. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1989. pp. 230–233</ref>

==== Partisan political responses ====
Michigan Governor [[George W. Romney|George Romney]] and President Lyndon B. Johnson initially disagreed about the legality of sending in [[United States Armed Forces|federal troops]]. Johnson said he could not send federal troops in without Romney's declaring a "state of [[insurrection]]", to meet compliance with the [[Insurrection Act]].

As the historian [[Sidney Fine (historian)|Sidney Fine]] details in ''Violence in the Model City'', partisan political issues complicated decisions, as is common in crisis. George Romney was expected to run for the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[presidential nomination]] in 1968, and President Johnson, a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]], did not want to commit troops solely on Romney's direction.<ref>Fine, Sidney. ''Violence in the Model City'', University of Michigan Press, 1989, p. 321</ref> Added to this was [[List of mayors of Detroit|Mayor]] [[Jerome Cavanagh]]'s own political and personal clash with Romney. Cavanagh, a young [[Irish Catholic]] Democrat who had cultivated harmonious relations with black leaders, both inside and outside the city,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/mhc_mag_phooie-on-louie_308397_7.pdf%26ved%3D0ahUKEwilmu_hmKLVAhUL_mMKHfNGA9kQFghFMAQ%26usg%3DAFQjCNEoPoOM2fWgv3eacB7fpSyA8vihww |title=Michigan Government documents |access-date=July 24, 2017 |archive-date=October 8, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171008232351/https://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/mhc_mag_phooie-on-louie_308397_7.pdf%26ved%3D0ahUKEwilmu_hmKLVAhUL_mMKHfNGA9kQFghFMAQ%26usg%3DAFQjCNEoPoOM2fWgv3eacB7fpSyA8vihww |url-status=dead}}</ref> was initially reluctant to ask Romney, a Republican, for assistance.<ref>Fine (1989), ''Violence in the Model City'', p. 171</ref>

==== Chaos ====
[[File:HenryFordHospitaldetroit.jpg|thumb|On July 24, forty National Guardsmen were pinned down by snipers at Henry Ford Hospital.<ref>Fine (1981), ''Violence in the Model City'', p. 229</ref> The hospital stayed open throughout and treated many injuries.]]
The violence escalated throughout Monday, resulting in some 483 fires, 231 incidents reported per hour, and 1,800 arrests. Looting and arson were widespread. [[Black-owned businesses]] were not spared. One of the first stores looted in Detroit was Hardy's drug store, owned by black people and known for filling prescriptions on credit. Detroit's leading black-owned women's clothing store was burned, as was one of the city's best-loved black restaurants. In the wake of the riots, a black merchant said, "you were going to get looted no matter what color you were."<ref>Thernstrom, Abigail and Stephan. ''America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible: Race in Modern America'': pp. 162–164</ref> [[Firefighters]] of the [[Detroit Fire Department]] who were attempting to fight the fires were shot at by rioters. During the riots, 2,498 [[rifle]]s and 38 [[handgun]]s were stolen from local stores. It was obvious that the City of Detroit, [[Wayne County, Michigan|Wayne County]], and State of Michigan forces were unable to restore order.{{Citation needed|date=October 2017}}

==== John Conyers speech ====
On Monday, U.S. Representative [[John Conyers]] (D-Michigan), who was against federal troop deployment, attempted to ease tensions by driving along 12th Street with a loudspeaker asking people to return to their homes.<ref>{{cite web |last= |first= |url=http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=8e0e802f-1db1-42a9-b915-3eee6a037c72 |title=1967 riot chronology work |work = The Windsor Star |date=July 22, 2007 |access-date=April 24, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106022448/http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=8e0e802f-1db1-42a9-b915-3eee6a037c72 |archive-date=November 6, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Reportedly, Conyers stood on the hood of the car and shouted through a bullhorn, "We're with you! But, please! This is not the way to do things! Please go back to your homes!" But the crowd refused to listen. Conyers' car was pelted with rocks and bottles.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1= Chikota |editor-first1 = Richard A. |editor-last2=Moran |editor-first2=Michael C. |title=Riot in the Cities: An Analytical Symposium on the Causes and Effects |date=1970 |publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |isbn=0-8386-7443-7 |page=67 |edition=1st }}</ref>

=== July 25 ===
{{See also|Algiers Motel incident}}
[[File:Meeting on Detroit riots Oval Office.jpg|thumb|July 24, 1967. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] (seated, foreground) confers with (background L-R): [[Marvin Watson]], FBI Director [[J. Edgar Hoover]], Secretary of Defense [[Robert McNamara]], General [[Harold Keith Johnson]], [[Joe Califano]], and Secretary of the Army [[Stanley Rogers Resor]], on responding to the riots]]

==== Military occupation ====
Shortly before midnight on Monday, July 24, President Johnson authorized the use of federal troops in compliance with the [[Insurrection Act]] of 1807, which authorizes the President to call in armed forces to fight an insurrection in any state against the government.<ref>''The New York Times'', July 26, 1967. p. 18</ref> This gave Detroit the distinction of being the only domestic American city to have been occupied by federal troops three times. The [[United States Army]]'s [[82nd Airborne Division]] and [[101st Airborne Division]] had earlier been positioned at nearby [[Selfridge Air Force Base]] in suburban [[Macomb County, Michigan|Macomb County]]. Starting at 1:30{{spaces}}a.m. on Tuesday, July 25, some 8,000 [[Michigan Army National Guard]]smen were deployed to quell the disorder. Later, their number would be augmented with 4,700 paratroopers from both the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, and 360 [[Michigan State Police]] officers.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

Chaos continued; the police were overworked and tired. Detroit Police were found to have committed many acts of abuse against both blacks and whites who were in their custody.<ref>Fine (1989), ''Violence in the Model City'', pp. 241–244</ref>

Although only 26 of the over 7,000 arrests involved snipers, and not one person accused of sniping was successfully prosecuted, the fear of snipers precipitated many police searches. The "searching for weapons" caused many homes and vehicles to be scrutinized. Curfew violations were also common sparks to police brutality. The Detroit Police's 10th Precinct routinely abused prisoners; as [[mug shots]] later proved, many injuries came after booking. Women were [[Sexual assault|stripped and fondled]] while officers took pictures. White landlords from New York City visiting their building were arrested after a sniper call and beaten so horribly that "their [[testicle]]s were still black and blue two weeks after the incident."<ref>Fine (1989), ''Violence in the Model City'', p. 245</ref>

==== Death of Tanya Blanding ====
A four-year-old girl named Tanya Blanding was shot and killed during the riot while she huddled in the living room of her second-floor apartment, a few steps from the intersection of 12th and Euclid, in the heart of the original riot area (precinct 10).<ref name="Locke 44">{{cite book |last=Locke |first=Hubert G. |title=The Detroit Riot of 1967 |publisher=Wayne State University Press |location=Detroit |year=1969 |pages=44}}</ref>

Sporadic sniper fire had been reported in the immediate area earlier in the evening and on the previous night. Guardsmen reported one of their units under fire at the intersection and believed they had pinpointed it as coming from the apartment in which Tanya and her family lived.<ref name="Locke 44" />

As a tank of the National Guard was being moved into position directly in front of the building, one of the occupants of the Blanding apartment was said to light a cigarette. Guardsmen opened fire on the apartment with rifles and the tank's .50 caliber machine gun. At 1:20&nbsp;a.m. Tanya Blanding was dead.<ref>{{cite book |last=Locke |first=Hubert G. |title=The Detroit Riot of 1967 |publisher=Wayne State University Press |location=Detroit |year=1969 |pages=44–45}}</ref>

Sergeant Mortimer J. LeBlanc, 41, admitted firing the burst into the windows of the apartment where Tanya was found, after another Guardsman told him that sniper fire had come from there. Tanya's mother, June, filed a [[lawsuit]] for $100,000 in [[damages]], on the grounds that Sgt. LeBlanc fired [[negligent]]ly into the apartment. He was exonerated.<ref>{{cite news |title=Damages Sought in Riot Death |work=Detroit Free Press |date=August 11, 1968 |page=15–A}}</ref>

=== July 26 ===

==== Quelling unrest ====
Some analysts believed that violence escalated with the deployment of troops, although they brought rioting under control within 48 hours. Nearly all of the Michigan Army National Guard were exclusively white, inexperienced militarily, and did not have urban backgrounds, while the [[Paratrooper|Army paratroopers]] were racially integrated and had seen service in Vietnam. As a result, the Army paratroopers were at ease and able to communicate easily in the city while the National Guardsmen were not as effective. The National Guardsmen engaged in what they said were firefights with locals, resulting in the death of one Guardsman. Of the 12 people that troops shot and killed, only one was shot by a federal soldier. Army paratroopers were ordered not to load their weapons except under the direct order of an officer. The [[Cyrus Vance]] report made afterward criticized the actions of the National Guardsmen, who shot and killed nine civilians.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/oralhistory.hom/Vance-C/DetroitReport.asp| title= [Text of &#93; Final Report of Cyrus R. Vance Concerning the Detroit Riots| access-date= April 24, 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110607101254/http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/oralhistory.hom/Vance-C/DetroitReport.asp| archive-date= June 7, 2011| url-status= dead}}</ref>

[[Tank]]s<ref>{{cite web
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==== Michigan Civil Rights Commission ====
The Michigan Civil Rights Commission intervened in the riot to try to protect the rights of arrestees. The arrival of the CRC was "not well received" by the police, who said the observers were interfering with police work. The Detroit Police Officers Association protested to Romney, "We resent the Civil Rights Commission looking over our shoulders, just waiting for some officer to stub his toe." At one precinct, a white officer "bitterly abused" a black CRC observer, saying that "all people of his kind should be killed."<ref name="Fine" />

==== Interracial relief organizations ====
United Press International (UPI) said that "the riots brought out the best, as well as the worst, in people."{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

As Louis Cassells reported on the ground for UPI:

"At a moment when race relations might seem to have sunk to the lowest possible level, whites and Negroes were working together, through their churches, to minister to the hungry and [[homeless]]. The effort transcended [[Religious denomination|denominational]] lines. By Wednesday [July 26, 1967], [[Protestantism in the United States|Protestants]], [[Catholicism in America|Catholics]] and Jews had established an interfaith emergency center to coordinate the relief work. District collection centers were set up at scores of churches and synagogues across the city. The food, clothing, bedding and cash contributed through them brought to the interfaith center, from which aid was distributed strictly according to need, without regard for race, creed, or color."

"Acts of kindness and generosity were not confined to religious groups. Unions, led by the [[United Auto Workers]] and the [[International Brotherhood of Teamsters|Teamsters]], joined with industrial firms in setting up a truck pool to transport relief supplies into the riot area. It was not just a matter of white people being kind to black people. Often it was the other way around, I saw Negro families bringing cool drinks of water to white National Guardsmen standing post in blazing sun. On several occasions, white reporters{{snd}}trapped on the streets during wild gun battles between Guardsmen and snipers{{snd}}were taken into the relative safety of nearby Negro homes, even though opening the door to admit them was a real risk to the Negro family. People can be pretty wonderful{{snd}}even in a riot."<ref>Louis Cassells, "Riots Brought Out the Best, Too", ''Dallas Morning News'', August 5, 1967</ref>

=== July 27–28 ===
By Thursday, July 27, sufficient order had returned to the city that officers withdrew [[ammunition]] from the National Guardsmen stationed in the riot area and ordered them to sheath their [[bayonet]]s. Troop withdrawal began on Friday, July 28, the day of the last major fire in the riot. The Army troops were completely withdrawn by Saturday, July 29. {{citation needed|date=October 2017}}

== Reactions ==
=== Nationwide violence ===
The Detroit riot was a catalyst to unrest elsewhere as the riot spread from the city into adjoining suburbs and to other areas of Michigan. Minimal rioting was reported in [[Highland Park, Michigan|Highland Park]] and [[River Rouge, Michigan|River Rouge]], a heavier police presence was required after a bomb threat was phoned in to an [[E.J. Korvette]] store in [[Southgate, Michigan|Southgate]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downriverthings.com/history-1961-1980.html|title=History: 1961–1980|work=Downriver Things|access-date=May 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150606155948/http://www.downriverthings.com/history-1961-1980.html|archive-date=June 6, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> and very minimal violence was reported in [[Hamtramck, Michigan|Hamtramck]]. The state deployed National Guardsmen or state police to other Michigan cities as simultaneous riots erupted in [[Pontiac, Michigan|Pontiac]], [[Flint, Michigan|Flint]], [[Saginaw, Michigan|Saginaw]], and [[Grand Rapids, Michigan|Grand Rapids]], as well as in [[Toledo, Ohio|Toledo]] and [[Lima, Ohio|Lima]], [[Ohio]]; [[New York City]] and [[Rochester, New York|Rochester]], [[New York (state)|New York]]; [[Cambridge, Maryland]]; [[Englewood, New Jersey]]; [[Houston]], Texas; and [[Tucson, Arizona]]. Disturbances were reported in more than two dozen cities.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

=== Local perceptions ===
Blacks and whites in Detroit viewed the events of July 1967 in very different ways. Part of the process of comprehending the damage was to survey the [[Attitude (psychology)|attitudes]] and beliefs of people in Detroit. Sidney Fine's chapter, "The Polarized Community," cites many of the academic and ''Detroit Free Press-''financed public opinion surveys conducted in the wake of the riot. Although [[Black Nationalism]] was thought to have been given a boost by the civil strife, as membership in [[Albert Cleage]]'s church grew substantially and the [[New Detroit]] committee sought to include black leadership like Norvell Harrington and Frank Ditto, it was whites who were much more likely to support separation.<ref name="Fine, Sidney 1989">Fine, Sidney. ''Violence in the Model City: The Cavanagh Administration, Race Relations, and the Detroit Riot of 1967''. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1989. p. 370 {{ISBN?}}</ref>

One percent of Detroit blacks favored "total separation" between the races in 1968, whereas 17 percent of Detroit whites did. African-Americans supported "[[Racial integration|integration]]" by 88 percent, while only 24 percent of whites supported integration. Residents of the 12th Street area differed significantly from blacks in the rest of the city however. For example, 22 percent of 12th Street blacks thought they should "get along without whites entirely".<ref name="Fine, Sidney 1989" /> Nevertheless, the ''[[Detroit Free Press]]'' survey of black Detroiters in 1968 showed that the highest approval rating for people was given to conventional politicians like [[Charles Diggs]] (27 percent) and [[John Conyers]] (22 percent) compared to Albert Cleage (4 percent).<ref>Fine, Sidney. ''Violence in the Model City: The Cavanagh Administration, Race Relations, and the Detroit Riot of 1967''. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1989. p. 375 {{ISBN?}}</ref>

== Damages ==
In Detroit, an estimated 10,000 people participated in the riots, with an estimated 100,000 gathering to watch.{{Citation needed |date=October 2022}} Thirty-six hours later, 43 were dead, 33 of whom were black and 10 white. More than 7,200 people were arrested, most of them black.{{Citation needed |date=October 2022}} Mayor [[Jerome Cavanagh]] lamented upon surveying the damage, "Today we stand amidst the ashes of our hopes. We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough."<ref>Boyle, Kevin. ''After the Rainbow Sign: Jerome Cavanagh and 1960s Detroit''. Wayne State University Press. {{page needed|date=July 2024}} {{ISBN?}}</ref>

The scale of the riot was the worst in the United States since the 1863 [[New York City draft riots]] during the [[American Civil War]],<ref>Foner, E. (1988). ''Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877'', The New American Nation series, p. 32, New York: Harper & Row</ref> and was not surpassed until the [[1992 Los Angeles riots]] 25 years later.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}

=== Injuries ===
1,189 people were injured: 407 civilians, 289 suspects, 214 Detroit police officers, 134 Detroit firefighters, 55 Michigan National Guardsmen, 67 Michigan State Police officers, 15 Wayne County Sheriff deputies, and 8 federal soldiers.{{citation needed|date=October 2019}}

=== Arrests ===
7,231 people were arrested: 6,528 adults and 703 juveniles; the youngest was 4 and the oldest was 82. Many of those arrested had no criminal record: 251 whites and 678 black. Of those arrested, 64% were accused of looting and 14% were charged with curfew violations.<ref name=Fine1987>{{cite journal|last=Sidney|first=Fine|title=Rioters and Judges: The Response of the Criminal Justice System to the Detroit Riot of 1967|journal=Wayne Law Review|year=1987|volume=33|issue=5|pages=1723–1764|url=http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/waynlr33&collection=journals&set_as_cursor=0&men_tab=srchresults&id=1737|access-date=July 29, 2012}}</ref>

=== Economic damage ===
2,509 businesses reported looting or damage, 388 families were rendered homeless or displaced, and 412 buildings were burned or damaged enough to be demolished. Dollar losses from property damage ranged from $40 million to $45 million.<ref name="ref1">{{cite web|url=http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6553/ |title=Michigan State Insurance Commission estimate of December, 1967, quoted in the ''National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders'' AKA ''Kerner Report'' |date=February 9, 1968 |access-date=April 24, 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110605064836/http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6553/| archive-date= June 5, 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref>

==== Joe's Record Shop ====
Joe's Record Shop on 8434 12th Street, owned by [[Joe Von Battle]], was one of the businesses that was destroyed in the 1967 Detroit Riot. The business was founded in 1945, on 3530 Hastings Street, where Battle sold records and recorded music with artists like [[John Lee Hooker]], [[C. L. Franklin|The Reverend C.L. Franklin]] and [[Aretha Franklin]]. He operated from the Hastings store until 1960 when the street was [[Demolition|razed]] in order to build the [[Chrysler Freeway]]. Battle along with other business owners on Hastings St. moved to 12th Street, where his shop operated until the events of July 23, 1967. During the '67 riots, Battle stood guard in front of his shop with his gun and his "Soul Brother" sign. After the first day of rioting, police authorities no longer permitted business owners to guard their shops. Days later, Battle returned to his record shop with his daughter Marsha Battle Philpot and they were met with "wet, fetid debris of what had been one of the most seminal record shops in Detroit."<ref>{{Cite book|title=Detroit 1967 : origins, impacts, legacies|others=Stone, Joel (Joel Lagrou), Sugrue, Thomas J.|isbn=978-0-8143-4303-6|location=Detroit, Michigan|oclc=957745596|last1 = Stone|first1 = Joel Lagrou|year = 2017}}</ref> Joe's Record Shop and much of the stock within{{snd}}including tapes and recordings of musicians{{snd}}were ruined. Ultimately, Battle's store was unable to reopen due to the damage caused by the 1967 riot.

=== Deaths ===
A total of 43 people died: 33 were black and 10 were white. Among the black deaths, 14 were shot by police officers; 9 were shot by National Guardsmen; 6 were shot by store owners or security guards; 2 were killed by [[asphyxia]]tion from a building fire; 1 was killed after stepping on a downed power line; and 1 was shot by a federal soldier.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kresnak |first=Jack |date=2015 |title=Hope for the City |publisher= Cass Community Publishing House |page=15 |isbn=978-1-942011-15-6 |quote=...1943 race riot in Detroit in which 34 people{{snd}}25 of them black and 17 of those shot by white police officers{{snd}}were killed.}}</ref> The National Guardsmen and Detroit Police were found to have engaged in "uncontrolled and unnecessary firing" that endangered civilians and increased police chaos. It has been suggested that the presence of snipers was imagined or exaggerated by officials, and some of the military and law enforcement casualties could have instead been [[friendly fire]].<ref>Bergesen, Albert. "Race Riots of 1967: An analysis of police violence in Detroit and Newark." ''Journal of Black Studies'' 12, no. 3 (1982): 273–274.</ref>

One black civilian, Albert Robinson, was killed by a National Guardsman responding with Detroit Police to an apartment building on the city's west side. Ernest Roquemore, a black teenager who was the last to die in the civil unrest, was killed by Army paratroopers on July 29 when caught in their crossfire directed toward someone else. The police shot three other individuals during the same firefight, with one victim needing his leg [[Amputation|amputated]].<ref name="Fine" /> Jack Sydnor was a black sniper who fired upon police and wounded one police officer in the street. The police came close to the building where the sniper lived and ambushed in the 3rd story building room by shooting him, making Sydnor the only sniper killed during the riot.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

Among the whites who died were 5 civilians, 2 firefighters, 1 looter, 1 police officer, and 1 Guardsman. Of the white sworn personnel killed, 2 firefighters died, with 1 stepping on a downed power line during attempts to extinguish a fire started by looters, while the other was shot while organizing fire units at Mack and St. Jean streets; 1 officer was shot by a looter while struggling with a group of looters; and 1 Guardsman was shot by fellow Guardsmen while being caught in the crossfire by fellow National Guardsmen firing on a vehicle which failed to stop at the roadblock.<ref>Bergesen, Albert. "Race Riots of 1967: An analysis of police violence in Detroit and Newark." ''Journal of Black Studies'' 12, no. 3 (1982): 261–274.</ref> Of the white civilians killed, 2 were shot by National Guardsmen, of whom 1 was staying at her hotel room and was mistaken for a sniper; 1 was shot as she and her husband tried to drive away from a group of black rioters beating a white civilian; 1 was shot by police while working as a security guard trying to protect a store from looters; and 1 was beaten to death by a black rioter after confronting looters in his store. Only 1 white looter was killed by police while trying to steal a car part at a junkyard on the outskirts of the city.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

=== List of deaths ===
{{more citations needed section|date=March 2017}}
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;"
|+ List of deceased
|-
! Name
! Race
! Age
! Date
! Description of Death
|-
| Jason Jones
| Black
| 15
| July 23, 1967
| Was sitting under a tree when a gang of white males were running from the police and exchanging fire; he was hit in the chest.
|-
| Willie Hunter
| Black
| 26
| July 23, 1967
| Found in the basement of Brown's Drug Store; believed to have died when the store burned down.<ref name="hourdetroit">{{Cite news|url=http://www.hourdetroit.com/Hour-Detroit/May-2017/The-43-Casualties-of-1967/|title=The 43 Casualties of 1967|access-date=October 8, 2017|language=en}}</ref>
|-
| Prince Williams
| Black
| 32
| July 23, 1967
| Also found asphyxiated in the basement of Brown's Drug Store.<ref name="hourdetroit" />
|-
| Sheren George
| White
| 23
| July 24, 1967
| Shot while in the car driven by her husband (Ross) as they tried to flee from a group of black men beating a white man.
|-
| Clifton Pryor
| White
| 23
| July 24, 1967
| Mistaken for a sniper while trying to keep sparks from a neighboring fire off the roof of his apartment building; shot by a National Guardsman.
|-
| Herman Ector
| Black
| 30
| July 24, 1967
| Shot by a security guard while attempting to intervene between the guard and a group of rioters.
|-
| Fred Williams
| Black
| 49
| July 24, 1967
| [[Electrocution|Electrocuted]] when he stepped on a downed power line.
|-
| Daniel Jennings
| Black
| 36
| July 24, 1967
| Broke into Stanley's Patent Medicine and Package Store; shot by the owner Stanley Meszezenski.
|-
| Robert Beal
| Black
| 49
| July 24, 1967
| Shot by a Detroit police officer at a burned-out auto parts store.
|-
| Joseph Chandler
| Black
| 34
| July 24, 1967
| Shot in the back by Detroit police while engaged in looting at the Food Time Market.
|-
| Herman Canty
| Black
| 46
| July 24, 1967
| Observed loading merchandise from the rear door of the Bi-Lo Supermarket. Police fired several rounds at the truck until it stopped, and they found Canty dead inside.
|-
| Alfred Peachlum
| Black
| 35
| July 24, 1967
| As A&P supermarket was being looted, Peachlum was inside with a shiny object in his hand. Police opened fire. The object turned out to be a piece of meat wrapped in shiny paper.
|-
| Alphonso Smith
| Black
| 35
| July 24, 1967
| The police version was that Smith and four other men were cornered while looting the Standard Food Market. Other sources{{Who|date=May 2012}} state that an officer fired through a window.
|-
| Nathaniel Edmonds
| Black
| 23
| July 24, 1967
| Richard Shugar, a 24-year-old white male, accused Edmonds of breaking into a store, and shot him in the chest with a shotgun. Shugar was convicted of [[Murder|second-degree murder]].
|-
| Charles Kemp
| Black
| 35
| July 24, 1967
| Took five packs of cigars and was observed removing a cash register from Borgi's Market. He ran, police officers gave chase, and fired at him.
|-
| Richard Sims
| Black
| 35
| July 24, 1967
| Shot after he attempted to break into the Hobby Bar.
|-
| John Leroy
| Black
| 30
| July 24, 1967
| A passenger in a vehicle upon which National Guard and police opened fire. Police stated that the vehicle was trying to break through a [[roadblock]].
|-
| Julius Dorsey
| Black
| 55
| July 25, 1967
| Worked as a security guard; shot by a National Guardsman who was pursuing suspected looters.
|-
| Carl Smith
| White
| 30
| July 25, 1967
| A firefighter; shot by a black male while attempting to organize firefighter units to fight several fires at Mack and St. Jean.
|-
| Emanuel Cosby
| Black
| 26
| July 25, 1967
| Broke into N&T Market; police arrived just as he was making his escape. Cosby ran and was shot while running away with his loot.
|-
| Henry Denson
| Black
| 27
| July 25, 1967
| Passenger in a car with two other black males; they encountered a roadblock erected by National Guardsmen; guardsmen shot at vehicle for trying to break the roadblock.
|-
| Jerome Olshove
| White
| 27
| July 25, 1967
| The only policeman killed in the riot. Olshove was shot in a scuffle with looters outside an A&P supermarket.
|-
| William Jones
| Black
| 28
| July 25, 1967
| Broke into a liquor store, was caught and attempted escape. Police ordered him to halt, but he continued to run and they shot him.
|-
| Ronald Evans
| Black
| 24
| July 25, 1967
| Shot with William Jones in liquor store looting.
|-
| Frank Tanner
| Black
| 19
| July 25, 1967
| Broke into a store with his friends and was shot while trying to escape a National Guardsman.
|-
| Arthur Johnson
| Black
| 36
| July 25, 1967
| Shot inside looted [[Pawnbroker|pawn shop]].
|-
| Perry Williams
| Black
| 36
| July 25, 1967
| Shot with Johnson inside pawn shop.
|-
| Jack Sydnor
| Black
| 38
| July 25, 1967
| Fired shots out of the window of his third-floor apartment. Shot police officer Roger Poike when the police arrived to investigate.  Was killed by police.
|-
| Tanya Blanding
| Black
| 4
| July 26, 1967
| Died as a result of gunfire from a National Guard tank stationed in front of her house. Guardsmen stated that they were responding to sniper fire from the second floor.
|-
| William N Dalton
| Black
| 19
| July 26, 1967
| Police report stated that he was an arsonist and was attempting to flee from the police.
|-
| Helen Hall
| White
| 51
| July 26, 1967
| Hall, a native of [[Illinois]], was visiting Detroit on business and stayed at the Harlan House Motel. Hearing tanks rolling by, she peeked through the drape window to see what was going on. She was shot by National Guardsmen who mistook her as a sniper.
|-
| Larry Post
| White
| 26
| July 26, 1967
| Post was a Corporal<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.michigan.gov/dmva/0,4569,7-126-2360_3003_3009-27393--,00.html|title=DMVA – The Tumultuous 1960s}}</ref> in the National Guard. After an exchange of gunfire between National Guardsmen and a car containing three men, Post was found with a gunshot wound to the stomach.
|-
| Carl Cooper
| Black
| 17
| July 26, 1967
| Killed by Detroit Police Officer David Senak in the Algiers Motel.
|-
| Aubrey Pollard
| Black
| 19
| July 26, 1967
| Killed by Detroit Police Officer Ronald August in the Algiers Motel.
|-
| Fred Temple
| Black
| 18
| July 26, 1967
| Killed by Detroit Police Officer Robert Paille in the Algiers Motel.
|-
| George Tolbert
| Black
| 20
| July 26, 1967
| Killed as he ran past a National Guard checkpoint at Dunedin and LaSalle Streets, when a bullet fired by a Guardsman hit him.
|-
| Albert Robinson
| Black
| 38
| July 26, 1967
| Shot and bayoneted by National Guardsmen Wednesday evening after they stormed an apartment building at Davison and LaSalle Boulevard in search of snipers. Died Aug 5 at Detroit General Hospital.
|-
| Krikor "George" Messerlian
| White
| 68
| July 27, 1967
| A 68-year-old [[Armenians|Armenian]] [[Immigration to the United States|immigrant]] business owner; beaten to death by Darryl McCurtis, a 20-year-old black male, after Messerlian confronted black looters.
|-
| Roy Banks
| Black
| 46
| July 27, 1967
| Banks was a [[Deafness|deaf]] man walking to a bus stop to go to work; he was shot by Guardsmen who mistook him for an escaping looter.
|-
| Ernest Roquemore
| Black
| 19
| July 28, 1967
| Shot by an Army paratrooper and declared dead on arrival at Detroit General Hospital. The soldier had been aiming at another youth who was unharmed.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=PKLuLyWz0kAC&dq=Ernest+Roquemore+killed&pg=PA202 ''The Role of Federal Military Forces in Domestic Disorders, 1945–1992''], Paul J. Scheips, CMH Pub. 30-20-1. Army Historical Series, Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History, 2005, p. 202</ref>
|-
| John Ashby
| White
| 26
| {{nowrap|August 4, 1967}}
| A Detroit firefighter; electrocuted by a high-tension wire that had fallen while he was trying to put out a fire started by rioters.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}
|}

== Effects ==
[[File:Grand River Motor City Casino, Detroit.jpg|thumb|right|Grand River Avenue was the western perimeter of looting and arson in 1967, forty years later it is home to one of Detroit's three casino hotels, the [[Motor City Casino]].]]

=== Local political strife ===
One of the criticisms of the [[New Detroit]] committee, an organization founded by [[Henry Ford II]], [[J.L. Hudson]], and [[Max Fisher]] while the embers were still cooling, was that it gave credibility to radical black organizations in a misguided attempt to listen to the concerns of the "inner-city Negro" and "the rioters." Moderate black leaders such as [[Arthur L. Johnson]] were weakened and intimidated by the new credibility the rebellion gave to black radicals, some of whom favored "a black republic carved out of five southern states" and supported "breaking into gun shops to seize weapons."<ref name="ReferenceA">Fine, Sidney. ''Violence in the Model City: The Cavanagh Administration, Race Relations, and the Detroit Riot of 1967''. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1989. 371</ref>

The [[Kerner Commission]] deputy director of field operations in Detroit reported that the most militant organizers in the 12th Street area did not consider it immoral to kill whites.<ref name="ReferenceA" />

Adding to the criticism of the New Detroit committee in both the moderate black and white communities was the belief that the wealthy, white industrial leadership were giving voice and money to radical black groups as a sort of "riot insurance." The fear that "the next riot" would not be localized to inner city black neighborhoods but would include the white suburbs was common in the black middle class and white communities. White groups like "Breakthrough" started by city employee Donald Lobsinger, a Parks and Recreation Department employee, wanted to arm whites and keep them in the city because if Detroit "became black" there would be "[[guerrilla warfare]] in the suburbs".<ref name="ReferenceB">Fine, Sidney. ''Violence in the Model City: The Cavanagh Administration, Race Relations, and the Detroit Riot of 1967''. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1989. 383</ref>

=== Racial and economic shifts ===
{{See also|Decline of Detroit|White flight}}
Detroit Councilman [[Mel Ravitz]] said the riot divided not only the races – since it "deepened the fears of many whites and raised the militancy of many blacks"<ref name="ReferenceB" /> – but it opened up wide cleavages within black and white communities as well. Moderate [[Liberalism in the United States|liberals]] of each race were faced with new political groups that voiced extremist solutions and fueled fears about future violence. Compared to the rosy newspaper stories before July 1967, the ''[[London Free Press]]'' reported in 1968 that Detroit was a "sick city where fear, rumor, race prejudice and gun-buying have stretched black and white nerves to the verge of snapping."<ref name="ReferenceB" /> Sidney Fine wrote that if the riot is interpreted as a protest, or a way for black grievances to be heard and addressed, it was partly successful.<ref>Fine, Sidney. ''Violence in the Model City: The Cavanagh Administration, Race Relations, and the Detroit Riot of 1967''. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1989. 425</ref>

The riot markedly increased the pace of Detroit's white residents moving out of the city. From 1967 to 1969, 173,000 white residents left, and from 1967 to 1978, Detroit public schools lost 74% of its white students.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.freep.com/story/news/detroitriot/2017/07/30/detroit-67-riot-race/512977001/ |title=Detroit 67: The deep scars the city still feels today |last=McGraw |first=Bill |date=July 29, 2017 |website=The Detroit Free Press |access-date=October 28, 2021 |quote=Sidney Fine writes in "Violence in the Model City" that the number of white Detroiters moving out of the city averaged 22,000 a year from 1964 through 1966, but the numbers jumped to 47,000 in 1967, 80,000 in 1968 and 46,000 in 1969. From 1967 to 1978, the Detroit Public Schools lost 74% of its white students.}}</ref>

The black community in Detroit received much more attention from federal and state governments after 1967, and although the New Detroit committee ultimately shed its black membership and transformed into the mainstream [[Detroit Renaissance]] group, money did flow into black-owned enterprises after the riot.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}} However, the most significant black politician to take power in the shift from a white majority city to a black majority city, [[Coleman Young]], Detroit's first black mayor, wrote in 1994:

{{blockquote|The heaviest casualty, however, was the city. Detroit's losses went a hell of a lot deeper than the immediate toll of lives and buildings. The riot put Detroit on the fast track to economic desolation, mugging the city and making off with incalculable value in jobs, earnings taxes, corporate taxes, retail dollars, sales taxes, mortgages, interest, property taxes, development dollars, investment dollars, tourism dollars, and plain damn money. The money was carried out in the pockets of the businesses and the white people who fled as fast as they could. The white exodus from Detroit had been prodigiously steady prior to the riot, totaling twenty-two thousand in 1966, but afterwards it was frantic. In 1967, with less than half the year remaining after the summer explosion{{snd}}the outward population migration reached sixty-seven thousand. In 1968 the figure hit eighty-thousand, followed by forty-six thousand in 1969.<ref>Young, Coleman. ''Hard Stuff: The Autobiography of Mayor Coleman Young'': p. 179.</ref>}}

In 2010, [[Thomas Sowell]], a [[conservative]] and [[senior fellow]] at the [[Hoover Institution]], wrote in an opinion article for a website created by [[The Heritage Foundation]]:

{{blockquote|Before the ghetto riot of 1967, Detroit's black population had the highest rate of home-ownership of any black urban population in the country, and their unemployment rate was just 3.4 percent.{{contradictory inline|date=November 2021}} It was not despair that fueled the riot. It was the riot which marked the beginning of the decline of Detroit to its current state of despair. Detroit's population today is only half of what it once was, and its most productive people have been the ones who fled.<ref>{{citation |last=Sowell |first=Thomas |author-link=Thomas Sowell |title=Voting with Their Feet |url=https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/03/29/voting-with-their-feet-n732700 |newspaper=Townhall |date=March 29, 2010 |access-date=April 12, 2017}}</ref>}}

=== Riot control strategies ===
Nationally, the riot confirmed for the military and the Johnson administration that [[military occupation]] of American cities would be necessary. In particular, the riot confirmed the role of the Army Operations Center as the agent to anticipate and combat domestic guerrilla warfare.<ref name=Risen2009ch5>{{cite book|last=Risen|first=Clay|title=A nation on fire : America in the wake of the King assassination|year=2009|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|location=Hoboken, NJ|isbn=978-0-470-17710-5|chapter=April 5: Midnight Interlude|page=[https://archive.org/details/nationonfireamer00rise/page/70 70]|quote=In the aftermath, the AOC's job changed dramatically. The need for federal troops to occupy portions of American cities was no longer a frightening possibility, but a sad fact.|chapter-url-access=registration|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/nationonfireamer00rise|url=https://archive.org/details/nationonfireamer00rise/page/70}}</ref>

=== Minority hiring ===
State and local governments responded to the riot with a dramatic increase in minority hiring. On August 18, 1967, the State Police department swore in the first black trooper in the fifty-year history of the organization.<ref>Sidney Fine, ''Expanding the Frontier of Civil Rights: Michigan, 1948–1968'' (Wayne State University Press, 2000) p. 322</ref> In May 1968, Detroit Mayor Cavanaugh appointed a Special Task Force on Police Recruitment and Hiring. Thirty-five percent of the police hired by Detroit in 1968 were black, and by July 1972, blacks made up 14 percent of the Detroit police, more than double their percentage in 1967.<ref>Sidney Fine, ''Expanding the Frontier of Civil Rights: Michigan, 1948–1968'' (Wayne State University Press, 2000) p. 325</ref> The Michigan government used its reviews of contracts issued by the state to secure an increase in nonwhite employment.  Minority group employment by the contracted companies increased by 21.1 percent.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=dTfA5R1m0XoC&q=riot%2C+employment&pg=PA335 Sidney Fine, ''Expanding the Frontier of Civil Rights: Michigan, 1948–1968'' (Wayne State University Press, 2000), p. 327]</ref>

In the aftermath of the turmoil, the Greater Detroit Board of Commerce launched a campaign to find jobs for ten thousand "previously unemployable" persons, a preponderant number of whom were black. By October 12, 1967, Detroit firms had reportedly hired about five thousand African-Americans since the beginning of the jobs campaign; according to [[Sidney Fine (historian)|Professor Sidney Fine]], "that figure may be an underestimate." In a ''[[Detroit Free Press]]'' survey of residents of the riot areas in the late summer of 1968, 39 percent of the respondents thought that employers had become "more fair" since the riot as compared to 14 percent who thought they had become "less fair."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=dTfA5R1m0XoC&q=riot%2C+employment&pg=PA335 Sidney Fine, ''Expanding the Frontier of Civil Rights: Michigan, 1948–1968'' (Wayne State University Press, 2000), p. 326]</ref>

After the riot, in one of the biggest changes, automakers and retailers lowered the entry-level job requirements. A [[Michigan Bell]] employment supervisor commented in 1968 that "for years businesses tried to screen people out. Now we are trying to find reasons to screen them in."<ref>Fine, Sidney. ''Violence in the Model City: The Cavanagh Administration, Race Relations, and the Detroit Riot of 1967''. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1989. p. 444</ref>

=== Housing laws ===
Prior to the disorder, Detroit enacted no ordinances to end housing segregation, and few had been enacted in the state of Michigan at all. Some liberal politicians had worked for fair housing over the years, but white [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] resistance to it was organized and powerful.  The reactionary movement began to wither after the insurrection. [[Sidney Fine (historian)|Sidney Fine]] noted that:<ref name="law.msu.edu">[https://www.law.msu.edu/clinics/rhc/MI_Housing_Disc.pdf Sidney Fine, "Michigan and Housing Discrimination 1949–1969" Michigan Historical Review, Fall 1997] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130504011411/http://www.law.msu.edu//clinics/rhc/MI_Housing_Disc.pdf |date=May 4, 2013}}</ref>

{{blockquote|The Detroit riot of 1967 and the racial disturbances it triggered elsewhere in the state, including Flint and Pontiac, swelled the number of Michigan Cities with fair housing ordinances to fifteen by November 1967, the largest number in any state at that time, and to thirty-five by October 1968, including some of the Detroit suburbs that had previously been almost entirely white.}}

Governor Romney immediately responded to the turmoil with a special session of the Michigan legislature, where he forwarded sweeping housing proposals that included not only fair housing, but "important relocation, [[Landlord–tenant law|tenants' rights]] and [[code enforcement]] legislation." Romney had supported such proposals before in 1964 and 1965, but abandoned them in the face of organized opposition. In the aftermath of the insurrection, the proposals again faced resistance from organized white homeowners and the governor's own Republican party, which once again voted down the legislation in the House. This time, however, Romney did not relent and once again proposed the housing laws at the regular 1968 session of the legislature.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

The governor publicly warned that if the housing measures were not passed, "it will accelerate the recruitment of revolutionary insurrectionists." He urged "meaningful [[fair housing]] legislation" as "the single most important step the legislature can take to avert disorder in our cities." This time the laws passed both houses of the legislature. The ''[[Michigan Historical Review]]'' wrote that:<ref name="law.msu.edu" />

{{blockquote|The Michigan Fair Housing Act, which took effect on Nov 15, 1968, was stronger than the federal fair housing law ... and than just about all the existing state fair housing acts. It is probably more than a coincidence that the state that had experienced the most severe racial disorder of the 1960s also adopted one of the strongest state fair housing acts.}}

=== Stop the Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets (STRESS) ===
{{More citations needed section|date=November 2019}}
Two years after the end of the 1967 riot, Wayne County Sheriff [[Roman Gribbs]], who was seen by many white Detroiters as their last "white hope" in a city with a growing black population, created the Stop the [[Robbery|Robberies]], Enjoy Safe Streets (STRESS) campaign, a secret and elite police unit that enabled police brutality.

STRESS used a tactic called "[[decoy]] operation", in which police officers tried to [[entrap]] potential criminals in an [[Undercover operation|undercover sting]]. From its inception, STRESS all but ignored white criminals, instead focusing their operations on black communities, and increased confrontations between the black community and police. During its first year of operation, the Detroit Police Department had the "highest number of civilian killings per capita of any American police department." The unit was accused of conducting 500 raids without the use of search warrants and killing 20 people within 30 months, and this fostered an unhealthy fear and hatred between the black community and the police force.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

Community groups did not take long to start responding to STRESS's activities. On September 23, 1971, the State of Emergency Committee was formed to protest the killings, and thousands of people marched to demand the abolition of STRESS.<ref name="Michigan State University Press">{{cite book|isbn=978-1-61186-066-5|title=Detroit: Race Riots, Racial Conflicts, and Efforts to Bridge the Racial Divide|first1=Joe T.|last1=Darden|first2=Richard W.|last2=Thomas|publisher=Michigan State University Press|date=2013|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/detroitraceriots0000dard}} - Article on book: ''[[Detroit: Race Riots, Racial Conflicts, and Efforts to Bridge the Racial Divide]]''</ref>

Following Senator Richard Austin, the first black person in various political and professional positions, came [[Coleman Young|Senator Coleman Young]]. In contrast to Senator Austin's quiet and accommodating political style, Young developed a liberal, combative political style in the labor and black radical movements of the late 1930s. Young helped organize the [[National Negro Labor Council]] (NNLC) and became its executive director. Finding himself in a position of national power, he said to his committee: "I am a part of the Negro people. I am now in process of fighting against what I consider to be attacks and discrimination against my people. I am fighting against un-American activities such as [[lynching]] and [[Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction era|denial of the vote]]. I am dedicated to that fight and I don't think I have to apologize or explain it to anybody" (Foner, 1981; Young and Wheeler, 1995: 128). This statement really reflected the views of the black people in Detroit at this time. With his position and emerging national attention, the black community began rallying behind Young for mayor in place of [[Roman Gribbs]]. Young began building part of his campaign upon what he believed to be one of the major problems for a city divided by race: STRESS. Young said, "one of the problems is that the police run the city... STRESS is responsible for the explosive polarization that now exists; STRESS is an execution squad rather than an enforcement squad. As mayor, I will get rid of STRESS" (Detroit Free Press, May 11, 1973). He added, "the whole attitude of the whole Police Department, historically, has been one of intimidation and that citizen can be kept in line with clubs and guns rather than respect." When Young was elected into office, he represented the fear and loathing of STRESS in the city that would have to be terminated.<ref name="Michigan State University Press" />

STRESS inadvertently promoted black political power, and the abolishment of the STRESS unit initiated the beginning of bringing black people into the police department.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

This matters in a larger context than simply the immediate implications of STRESS. This unit instigated the mayoral campaign and eventual candidacy of Mayor Coleman Young, who would go on to spend the next 20 years fighting for black rights and reframing the relationship between the police force and the black community. While the STRESS campaign was important on its own in terms of the individuals killed or families of these individuals, it became radically important for the cultural shift that Mayor Coleman Young would facilitate.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

The global context of this campaign changed the trajectory of black political and professional power and opportunity.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

=== Other political impacts ===
In the wake of the riots, a group of several hundred African American activists met in Detroit, where they declared the [[Republic of New Afrika|Republic of New Africa]] and a provisional government for it.<ref name=":Li">{{Cite book |last=Li |first=Hongshan |title=Fighting on the Cultural Front: U.S.–China Relations in the Cold War |date=2024 |publisher=[[Columbia University Press]] |isbn=9780231207058 |location=New York|jstor=10.7312/li--20704}}</ref>{{Rp|page=276}} It was the first separate nation declared by African Americans in the United States.<ref name=":Li" />{{Rp|page=276}}

=== African-American social advances ===
In light of the event, faults in the existing system became apparent and measures were taken to solve the problems. In 1970, First Independence National Bank (now First Independence Bank) gave African Americans capital which was generally inaccessible due to [[redlining]]; this provided [[social mobility]] and better living conditions.<ref name="ReferenceC">Wall text, Detroit '67: Perspectives exhibit, [[Detroit Historical Museum]].</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Detroit 67: Perspectives |url=https://detroithistorical.org/detroit-historical-museum/exhibitions/special-exhibitions/detroit-67-perspectives |website=Detroit Historical Museum |access-date=February 13, 2022}}</ref>

Others worked with the government to understand the problem, and this research provided the basis for solutions. [[Wayne State University]] partnered with the [[United States Department of Health and Human Services#Department of Health, Education, and Welfare|Department of Health, Education, and Welfare]] to create the Developmental Career Guidance Project, which studied improving the potential for poor students. Its report helped form the backbone of a number of educational programs.<ref name="ReferenceC" /> Other efforts to heal came from organizations like the Interfaith Action Council, which sought to bring people of different races and religions together to encourage dialogue about racial inequality.<ref name="ReferenceC" />

The 1967 riot inspired active measures to overturn [[stereotype]]s and solve day-to-day problems, with African Americans resisting inequality in their lives. William Cunningham and Eleanor Josaitis founded HOPE, an organization which targeted hunger and workplace inequality, in 1968. HOPE evolved to provide skills training for young people. [[General Baker]] and Ron March led the [[Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement]], seeking a voice in the workplace; Alvin Bush and Irma Craft guided the Career Development Center to provide basic skills training and job placement; and the Volunteer Placement Corps assisted African Americans to obtain a college education.<ref name="ReferenceC" />

The most influential change came from African Americans in powerful positions. The riot contributed to African Americans becoming the majority in Detroit, and gave them political power. For the first time in the city's history, African Americans could affect municipal policy. Political figures such as Mayor [[Coleman Young]] enacted policies which attempted to integrate the city. Young began with changes to the police and fire departments, implementing a two-list system which gave African Americans an equal chance of promotion; his goal was to balance the departments' racial and gender makeup. Young sought the backing of President [[Jimmy Carter]], allowing money to flow into Detroit for improvements in education and housing.<ref name="Michigan State University Press" /> In 1972 the Detroit Common Council elected its first African American president, Erma Henderson, who fought insurance redlining and discrimination in the judicial system and public spaces.<ref name="ReferenceC" />

== Legacy ==
=== Public opinion ===
A poll conducted by EPIC-MRA, a survey research firm, in July 2016 focused on the evolution of black–white relations since the riots. The poll surveyed 600 residents of [[Macomb County, Michigan|Macomb]], [[Oakland County, Michigan|Oakland]], and [[Wayne County, Michigan|Wayne]] counties. The poll took place from July 14–19, a time period the ''[[Detroit Free Press]]'' noted was "during the ongoing national furor over police shooting of African-American civilians, and [[Revenge|retaliatory]] [[2016 shooting of Dallas police officers|attacks on officers in Dallas]] and [[2016 shooting of Baton Rouge police officers|Baton Rouge]]."<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/07/28/poll-detroit-michigan-race-racial-relations/87658938/|title=Poll: Most metro Detroiters say race relations improving|last=McGraw|first=Bill|date=July 28, 2016|website=Detroit Free Press}}</ref>

The respondents of the Detroit poll were more optimistic about race relations compared to the national averages. A national [[The Washington Post|Washington Post]]/[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] poll found that only 32% of the people they polled believed race relations were good, as opposed to the 56% and 47% of the white and black Detroiters surveyed, respectively.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/polling/dire-national-outlook-race-relations/2016/07/25/62318504-4ba0-11e6-8dac-0c6e4accc5b1_page.html|title=A dire national outlook on race relations|date=July 25, 2016|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=March 10, 2017}}</ref> This was unsurprising to Reynold Farley, a retired [[University of Michigan]] [[sociology]] professor and expert on Detroit racial demographics. "I think it's easier for people in the Detroit area to have some familiarity with race relations than people in a state like [[Maine]], where there's virtually no black population at all and the information comes from seeing violent incidents on television", he explained.<ref name=":0" /> In the following question, Farley's claim was validated as the stark contrast in national vs. Detroiter perception of what the future would be like was apparent. As just 10% of those polled by the Washington Post/ABC News believed that race relations we getting better, whereas 33% of white and 22% of black Detroiters thought they had improved over the past 10 years and 50% of white and 41% of blacks believed they would improve over the next five.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

Although these responses were encouraging signs of a diminishing racial gap in Detroit, and a heightened attunement to race relations in the city compared to the rest of the nation, other questions concerning Detroiters' perception of the riots and how the improvement of [[race relations]] are actualized in their everyday life show there is still much mending to be done.{{clarify|reason=whose analysis is this? pollsters? News? please attribute|date=March 2017}} When asked which word they would use to describe the 1967 riots – riot, rebellion or uprising – the white response was 61%, 12%, 12% and blacks, 34%, 27%, 24%, respectively. The majority of respondents did agree, however, that since the riots they believed there had been significant progress made vs little or no progress Unfortunately, many black Detroiters still feel as if they are facing the type of [[discrimination]] that led to the riots in the first place. The polled black Detroiters reporting that in the past 12 months 28% felt they had been unfairly treated in hiring, pay, or promotion, double the rate of their white counterparts. 73% also believed that they were treated less fairly than whites when attempting to find a "good job".<ref name=":0" />

== In popular culture ==
[[File:Detroit Historical Museum July 2018 32 (Detroit '67- Perspectives).jpg|thumb|The Detroit '67: Perspectives exhibit at the [[Detroit Historical Museum]]]]
Several songs directly refer to the riot. The most prominent was "Black Day in July", written and sung by Canadian singer-songwriter [[Gordon Lightfoot]] for his 1968 album ''[[Did She Mention My Name?]]''. Others include the 1967 song "The Motor City Is Burning" by [[John Lee Hooker]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/2017/07/30/detroit-riot-music/499309001/|title=July '67 altered the sound, sensibilities of Detroit musicians – and those yet to be born|work=Detroit Free Press|access-date=October 8, 2017}}</ref> which was also recorded by the [[MC5]] on their 1969 album ''[[Kick Out the Jams]]''; "[[Panic in Detroit]]", from [[David Bowie]]'s 1973 album ''[[Aladdin Sane]]''; [[The Temptations]]' 1970 single "[[Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)|Ball of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today)]]"; [[The Spinners (American R&B group)|The Spinners]]' 1973 single "[[Ghetto Child]]"; [[Marvin Gaye]]'s "What's Happening Brother" from his 1971 album ''[[What's Going On (Marvin Gaye album)|What's Going On]]''; the title track from Detroit producer and DJ [[Moodymann]]'s 2008 EP ''Det.riot '67'', which sampled audio recordings from news reels talking about the riot;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.discogs.com/Moody-Detriot-67/release/1463879 |title=Moody* – Det.riot '67 (Vinyl) at Discogs |website=[[Discogs]] |date=January 10, 2009 |access-date=April 24, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110602151459/http://www.discogs.com/Moody-Detriot-67/release/1463879 |archive-date=June 2, 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> and "Detroit '67" by Canadian singer-songwriter [[Sam Roberts (singer-songwriter)|Sam Roberts]] from his 2008 album ''Love at the End of the World''.

An episode of ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'', "[[Let That Be Your Last Battlefield]]", used footage of burning buildings from the 1967 Detroit Riot to dramatize a planetary war between two alien races. One was colored black on the left side white on the right, and the other the opposite. The two alien races were represented by guest stars [[Frank Gorshin]] and [[Lou Antonio]].{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

[[Judy Blume]]'s 1970 novel ''[[Iggie's House]]'', which dealt with issues of racial hatred arising from a black family's moving into a predominantly white neighborhood, also referenced the riot.  The book's protagonist, Winnie, unintentionally gets off to a bad start with her new neighbors, the Garbers (who have just moved from Detroit), by asking the family's three children if they participated in any of the looting.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

The riots were also depicted in the films ''[[Dreamgirls (film)|Dreamgirls]]'', ''[[Across the Universe (film)|Across the Universe]]'' and ''[[Detroit (film)|Detroit]]''.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

The December 7, 2010, episode of ''[[Detroit 1-8-7]]'' on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] aired archive footage and photos of Detroit during the 1967 riots.  The episode's primary storyline depicted a 2010 discovery of a black male body and a white female body in a fallout shelter constructed under a building that burned down during the riots. In reality, there were two people, listed above, who lost their lives in a basement of a building that was burned down.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://abc.go.com/shows/detroit-1-8-7/episode-guide|title=Episode guide| access-date= December 8, 2010 <!--DASHBot-->}}</ref>

[[Jeffrey Eugenides]]' 2002 novel ''[[Middlesex (novel)|Middlesex]]'' has a detailed retelling of, and makes some social commentary on, the riot. [[Joyce Carol Oates]]'s 1969 novel ''[[them (novel)|them]]'' climaxes with the riot. [[John Hersey]]'s 1968 nonfiction book ''[[Algiers Motel incident|The Algiers Motel Incident]]'' is a [[true crime]] account of an incident that occurred during the riots, and the 2017 film ''[[Detroit (film)|Detroit]]'', [[Screenplay|written]] by [[Mark Boal]] and [[Film director|directed]] by [[Kathryn Bigelow]], was a dramatization based on that incident. Survivors of the incident participated in the production of the film.<ref>{{cite news |work=Variety |url=https://variety.com/2017/film/news/detroit-julie-hysell-kathryn-bigelow-1202511177/ |title=How Kathryn Bigelow's 'Detroit' Helped Police Attack Victim Julie Hysell Heal |first=Brent |last=Lang |date=August 1, 2017 |access-date=August 3, 2017}}</ref>

== Art influenced by the riots ==
=== Fine art ===
Many artworks were created in response to the 1967 events, a number of which were included in the 2017 exhibition "Art of Rebellion: Black Art of the Civil Rights Movement", curated by Valerie J. Mercer for the [[Detroit Institute of Arts]]. ''Black Attack (1967)'' was painted by Detroit abstract artist [[Allie McGhee]] immediately following the event. The work includes "broad strokes of color that appear spontaneous, give form to the artists memories of strength and resolve of black people facing intense opposition to change."<ref name=":02">{{Cite book|title=Art of rebellion : Black art of the civil rights movement|last=J.|first=Mercer, Valerie|others=Detroit Institute of Arts.|isbn=978-0-89558-175-4|location=[Detroit, Michigan]|oclc=999608376|year = 2017}}</ref>

In 2017, Detroit based artist Rita Dickerson created ''1967: Death in the Algiers Motel and Beyond.'' In the work Dickerson "depicts the Algiers Motel and portraits of three young Black men killed there by police. Below the portraits are the names of men and women who have died in recent years in encounters with police, underscoring the fact that police brutality continues to cost black people their lives."<ref name=":02" />

=== Literary art ===
Bill Harris, a Detroit-based poet, playwright, and educator, wrote about the condition of the Detroit black community – referred to by him as the DBC – after July 1967 in ''Detroit: a young guide to the city''. The book was edited by Sheldon Annis and published by Speedball Publications in 1970.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://development.kresgearts.server287.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Bill_Harris.pdf|title=Bill Harris 2011 Kresge Eminent Artist|access-date=October 8, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Bill Harris 2011 Kresge Eminent Artist|publisher=The Kresge Foundation|year=2011|isbn=978-0-9839654-0-4|location=Detroit, MI|pages=49, 50, 51}}</ref>

=== Performing arts ===
Two plays based on firsthand accounts were performed in 2017.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/2017/07/19/detroit-artists-have-lot-say-67-riot/488114001/|title=Detroit artists have a lot to say about '67 riot|work=Detroit Free Press|access-date=October 8, 2017}}</ref> ''Detroit '67'' presented recollections from five metro Detroiters at the [[Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History]] by the Secret Society of Twisted Storytellers. ''AFTER/LIFE'', performed at the Joseph Walker Williams Recreation Center, presented the events from the perspectives of women and girls.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

== See also ==
{{portal|Michigan|1960s}}
*[[Long hot summer of 1967]]
*[[Crime in Detroit|Detroit crime]]
*[[Decline of Detroit]]
*[[Kerner Commission]]
*[[List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States]]

=== Other July 1967 riots ===
*[[1967 Newark riots]] in New Jersey (July 12–17)
*[[1967 Plainfield riots]] in New Jersey (July 14–16)
*[[Cambridge riot of 1967]] in Maryland (July 24)
*[[1967 Milwaukee riot]] in Wisconsin

=== Other riots in Detroit ===
*[[Detroit race riot of 1863]]
*[[Detroit race riot of 1943]]
*[[1968 Detroit riot]] following the [[assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.]]
*[[Livernois–Fenkell riot]]
*[[1990 Detroit riot]]
*[[Detroit riots|Full list of riots in Detroit]]

=== Other similar-scale race riots ===
*1921 [[Tulsa race riot]]
*1923 [[Rosewood massacre]]
*[[1965 Watts Riot]]
*[[1968 Washington, D.C., riots]]
*[[1968 Chicago riots]]
*[[1968 Baltimore riots]]
*[[1980 Miami riots]]
*[[1992 Los Angeles riots]]
*[[2011 England Riots]]
*2020 [[George Floyd protests]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== Further reading ==
* {{cite book |last=Colling |first=Herb |year=2003 |publisher=Natural Heritage Books |location=Toronto, ON |title=Turning Point: the Detroit Riots of 1967: a Canadian perspective |isbn=1-896219-81-0 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/turningpointsdet0000coll }}
* {{cite book|author=Fine, Sidney |title=Violence in the Model City: The Cavanagh Administration, Race Relations, and the Detroit Riot Of 1967 |url=https://archive.org/details/violenceinmodelc0000fine|url-access=registration |date=2007|edition=reprint of 1989|publisher=Michigan State University Press |isbn=978-0-87013-815-7}}
* {{cite book |last=Stahl |first=Kenneth  |title=The Great Rebellion: A Socioeconomic Analysis of the 1967 Detroit Riot |isbn=978-0-9799157-0-3 |date=October 2009 |publisher=Kenneth Stahl }}
* Stone, Joel, ed. ''Detroit 1967: Origins, Impacts, Legacies''  (Wayne State UP), 328 pages

== External links ==
Additional resources, including photos, essays and archival material depicting the events of July 1967 are available from several websites listed below:

*[http://projects.lib.wayne.edu/12thstreetdetroit/ "12th Street, Detroit" web exhibit] featuring archival documents from the Walter P. Reuther Library.
*[https://digital.library.wayne.edu/digitalcollections/search.php?q=race+riot&fq%5B%5D=rels_isMemberOfCollection:%22info:fedora/wayne:collectionvmc%22&start=0&fq%5B%5D=facet_mods_year:%221967%22 Detroit Race Riot 1967 images with captions] from the Virtual Motor City Collection. Photographs are housed at the [[Walter P. Reuther Library]] at [[Wayne State University]].
*[http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/node/8036 The Civil Unrest of 1967] Essay including links to several collections of archival material related to the unrest, both from community organizations and individuals active in Detroit politics. Resources held at the [[Walter P. Reuther Library]]. Also includes oral history and 134 images with captions.
*[http://www.detroits-great-rebellion.com/Index.html Detroit riot 1967] Detroit before, during and after the riots.
*[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh//amex/eyesontheprize/story/13_detroit.html July 1967 Detroit Riot] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170411060054/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh//amex/eyesontheprize/story/13_detroit.html |date=April 11, 2017 }} web page from [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]]' ''Eyes on the Prize'' documentary.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110718153310/http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/oralhistory.hom/Vance-C/DetroitReport.asp Report of Federal Activities During the Detroit Riots by Cyrus R. Vance] on President Lyndon Johnson's website.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100823045746/http://www.67riots.rutgers.edu/d_index.htm Rutgers University website] provides video clips from Detroiters who experienced the riots.
*[http://rosaparksbiography.org/bio/1967-uprising/ 1967 Uprising, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks]
*[https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/search?f%5B0%5D=mods_subject_topic_ms%3A%22Riots--Michigan--Detroit%22 Detroit Public Library – Burton Historical Collection – Detroit Riot Photographs]

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