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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

DETROIT (WWJ) - Saturday, July 23 marks the 44th anniversary of the 1967 riots in Detroit. The disturbance started with a police raid of a "Blind Pig," an after hours bar on 12th Street and ...

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 ...

The names of the 43 who died in Detroit riot of 1967 were read aloud during special Mass. ... It was a police raid on 12th Street that sparked the riot.

Detroit writer Marsha Music shares her essay from "Detroit 1967 ... He opened just two years after the 1943 race riot had ... some who did — like my father — ended up on 12th Street.

In the summer of 1967, Detroit was home to some of the largest riots in American history. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Detroit native Luther Keith about the unrest, and how the city is now.