While Detroit in the mid-Sixties had a larger ... But the 1967 eruption, also known as the 12th Street riot, was remarkable not only for how long it lasted, but for the force that the city ...

Williams was killed at 12th and Hazelwood, two blocks south of where the riot began. There is no street in Detroit that resembles 12th Street in 2017, but there was no street in Detroit in 1967 ...

recalling the hours after a police raid of a nearby blind pig at 12th Street and Clairmount Avenue triggered the violence that would become known as the Detroit riot. “That’s when we found out ...

To others, it was just the opposite: a “long, hot summer,” characterized by more than 150 separate riots responding ... watering hole on Detroit’s 12th Street on July 23, 1967.

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 ...

Detroit police check buildings along a section of 12th Street, about three miles from downtown Detroit, Michigan, on July 24, 1967, following racial riots which broke out in the city. Many ...

And this was during the Detroit riots. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING ... And church was St. Agnes Church, which is located on 12th Street, about 10 or 12 blocks from the epicenter of the ...

The track will appear on the soundtrack for Kathryn Bigelow’s new film Detroit, about the 1967 12th Street riot. The Detroit soundtrack is full of Sixties soul, doo-wop and R&B and boasts ...

In Detroit, tensions between the police and the ... The disturbances began on 12th Street, since renamed Rosa Parks Boulevard. They started spontaneously after a routine police raid on an illegal ...

The Detroit Rebellion, also known as 12th Street Riot, began on July 23, 1967, following a police raid on an unlicensed bar in a predominantly African-American neighborhood. The National Guard and ...

He and his wife moved from the riot zone. This combination of July 23, 1967, and July 11, 2017, photos shows people running on 12th Street on Detroit’s west side, throwing stones at storefronts ...