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Plaque Unveiled To Mark 1967 Detroit Riot

Federal troops ride on a fire engine to protect the firefighters from snipers during the riots in Detroit, Michigan, July 27, 1967. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Federal troops ride on a fire engine to protect the firefighters from snipers during the riots in Detroit, Michigan, July 27, 1967. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
City of Detroit displayed it yesterday on the 50th anniversary

A policeman searches black suspects in a Detroit street on July 25, 1967 as buildings are burning during riots that erupted in Detroit following a police operation. (AFP/Getty Images)

Detroit has unveiled a plaque at the location that changed Detroit forever with civil unrest and riots that started with a police raid on an after-hours club where Gordon Park now sits.  

Yesterday, the city held the event commemorating the rioting of 1967, which Hattie Ross remembers very clearly.

"We couldn't sleep at night — we couldn't go anywhere — guys coming in with guns and things — it was terrible," says Ross.

Aerial view of burning buildings in Detroit on July 25, 1967 during riots that erupted in Detroit following a police operation. (AFP/Getty Images)

Congressman John Conyers attended yesterday's unveiling.

"It's easy for us to get together and think nothing of it but in those days it was a different story entirely," says Conyers.

By the time it was over after five days, 43 people were killed, over 14-hundred buildings were burned, and more than 72-hundred people had been arrested.


 

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