THE CASE of Mrs. Elizabeth Allgaier suing for $5,000 in damages went to the jury last week. Ben Frost et al. are the defendants. Allgaier alleges that two salon firms ...

Alternately called the 1967 Detroit Riot, the Detroit Uprising, the Detroit Rebellion and the 12th Street Riot, this five-day conflict primarily pitted African American residents against the ...

The riot was ignited when Detroit's nearly all-white police force arrested several black revelers at an after-hours drinking club on 12th Street — since renamed Rosa Parks Boulevard — in the ...

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 (AP) — The site of a transient motel in Detroit where three Black teenagers were killed, allegedly by white police officers, during the city’s bloody 1967 race riot is receiving a ...

I was familiar with every sidewalk and porch they would see. Some years earlier, I delivered handbills for a grocery near the riot epicenter of Clairmont and 12th Street, which at that time was ...

On Second Thought More than 50 years ago, Willie Horton took a swing at quelling Detroit riots By Kevin Paul Dupont Globe Staff,Updated June 6, 2020, 6:19 p.m.

In this photo from July 24, 1967, a police officer searches a youth on Detroit's 12th Street. It was after 3 a.m. on a Sunday: July 23, 1967.

When the riot was only a few hours old, John Conyers, one of Detroit‘s two Negro Congressmen, drove up Twelfth Street with Hubert Locke and Deputy School Superintendent Arthur Johnson.

The Detroit Riots of 1967 resulted in at least 43 deaths and a vastly changed city. 50 years later, the city's people and officials commemorated the riots and what happened next.