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 ...

At 5:30 p.m., twelve hours into the riot, Mayor Cavanaugh requested that the National Guard be brought into Detroit to stop the violence. Meanwhile firefighters abandoned an area roughly 100 square ...

DETROIT - After six days of rioting and looting in 1967, the city built Gordon Park in the ashes of the 12th Street and Clairmount Avenue blind pig where the chaos started. The park was meant to ...

Also, the Archdiocese of Detroit is planning a massive cleanup effort next week with thousands of volunteers for the area around 12th Street where the riot began.

He opened just two years after the 1943 race riot had ravaged many commercial storefronts on Hastings, a street full of immigrant — mostly Jewish — shopkeepers and black business folk and ...

When the 1967 Detroit riot came home 50 years ago, my father, a Detroit cop, was hosting a party on his day off. Then he got called in to work ...

Professor Emeritus Beth Bates talked about how the 1967 Detroit rebellion began. The Detroit Rebellion, also known as 12th Street Riot, began on July 23, 1967, following a police raid on an ...

In the summer of 1967, the Motor City exploded in five days of lethal violence so shocking that people still argue over what to call it—a riot, a rebellion, or an uprising.

The sound of gunshots filled Detroit's 12th Street as a tank burst through the thick black smoke rolling down the road. "There was a lot of boom, boom, boom," said resident Maurice Wilson. "Before ...

In this photo from July 24, 1967, a police officer searches a youth on Detroit's 12th Street.

Professor Emeritus Beth Bates talked about about how the 1967 Detroit rebellion began. The Detroit Rebellion, also known as 12th Street Riot, began on July 23, 1967, following a police raid on an ...