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The riot in Detroit in 1967 was a national crisis ... after police raided a popular but unlicensed African-American watering hole on Detroit’s 12th Street on July 23, 1967. “At week’s ...

July 23, 1967 (12th Street Riot, Day 1): Around 3:30 a.m. on Sunday, July 23, Detroit police officers raided a “blind pig” (an unlicensed, after-hours bar), tucked into the second-floor office ...

Williams was killed at 12th and Hazelwood, two blocks south of where the riot began. 12th Street. There is no street in Detroit that resembles 12th Street in 2017, ...

The Motor City has its share of problems these days, but there's a history of coldness in the D.To this day, the 12th Street Riot (also known as the 1967 Detroit Riot) remains among the worst in ...

Dorothy Weems could smell something burning. In the summer of 1967, she was in her mid-30s, a mother of four young children, living on Kendall Street between Lawton and Linwood. She said the air ...

DETROIT (NEWSCHANNEL 3) – Fifty years ago the 12th Street Riots ripped through Detroit, leaving 43 people dead and 1600 buildings burned down.Today the Battle Creek Police Department brought ...

In this July 23, 1967 file photo, hundreds of people run down 12th Street on Detroit's westside throwing stones and bottles at storefronts. The riot started after police raided an after-hours club ...

A Michigan State policeman searches a youth on Detroit's 12th Street, July 24, 1967, where looting was still in progress after yesterday's rioting. His companions lean against the wall waiting ...

The nation's worst urban riot erupted on Detroit's 12th Street in July 1967, and when the shooting and looting stopped after four days, 43 people were dead and the surrounding Virginia Park area ...