Alternately called the 1967 Detroit Riot, the Detroit Uprising, the Detroit Rebellion and the 12th Street Riot, this five-day ...

It was the height of the 1967 Detroit riot when the Detroit Free Press rented an armored personnel carrier (without the gun) to send the newspaper's staff closer to the scene. Photographer Ira ...

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SHORTLY after midnight on July 25, 1967, at the height of the Detroit riots, police and National Guard troops seized the annex of the Algiers Motel. They were searching for snipers. Two hours ...

A reader shares his personal experience of the 1967 Detroit riot, when he was "a neophyte in the auditing department of Detroit Bank and Trust (now Comerica)" and tasked with traveling to the ...

Detroit’s population plummeted, in part due to the growth of the suburbs in the 1950s, race riots in 1967, the decline in auto manufacturing, and the 2008 financial crisis. Over the decades each ...